[wp-hackers] Wordpress and Web Standards

[Pierre-Henri Lavigne]

Howdy,

Honestly I'm feeling ridiculous.

I didn't know you were the lead developer of Wordpress, a wasp member 
and webstandards.org was developed with this platform.

So I am a paddawan in front of a master regards to your skills and you 
don't need me (It would be me to need you : ) So I'm going to stop 
"annoying" you about standards topics and wordpress politics you already 
thought about.

I wish you and Wordpress a great future.
Best regards,

Peter
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Pierre-Henri Lavigne
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Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> Pierre-Henri Lavigne wrote:
>> I define the Web standards as a way to apply truly and realistly the 
>> specifications from the W3C. The Web Standards Project (WaSP) fights 
>> for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development 
>> while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any 
>> site published on the Web. (From http://www.webstandards.org/about/) 
>> WASP and other communities are helping to use those web standards.
>
> As a member of WaSP, I agree with your concerns.
>
>> I define standard(s) (not standards as the shortcut for web 
>> standards) languages or technologies that are using the approach to 
>> define the basics every developer should follow. Following this way, 
>> developers agree and unify themself to use those resources. There are 
>> not especially and automatically references to the web world.
>
> Yes, but it's important to be wary of 
> standards-for-the-sake-of-standards, or ones that do not provide 
> meaningful benefit over current standards-based conventions.
>
> Lots of standards "suck", HTTP has mispelled "referrer" longer than 
> I've been on the web, but changing things to make them "more correct" 
> is a bad idea. (*cough*frakincommentsRsS*cough)
>
> If something doesn't solve a real-world problem, I'm not particularly 
> interested in it.
>
>> users and hardware is to support a unique format for each feed. Here 
>> is a wiki link to compare RSS 2.0 and ATOM 1.0 :
>> http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared.
>
> That document is mostly FUD, very little of it applies to us. I'm not 
> sure which of the points there, or the points later in your email, are 
> meant to apply to WordPress. RSS 2.0 can be ambiguous in parts, which 
> is why we follow conventional RSS:
>
> http://thresholdstate.com/threshold/4166/conventional-rss
>
> If there was an aggregator which could not parse any of the feeds that 
> we produce, that would be a good reason to re-examine things, but by 
> definition such an aggregator would probably never reach a point of 
> success that we would care.
>