From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57427 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Wizards! I mean, Assistants! Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:58:13 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084813203 13408 80.91.224.253 (17 May 2004 17:00:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5967@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 17 18:59:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPlSy-0002hM-00 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:59:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BPlS1-0005D3-00; Mon, 17 May 2004 11:58:54 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BPlRu-0005Cx-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 17 May 2004 11:58:46 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BPlRt-00010g-1Q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 17 May 2004 11:58:45 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 844323A0050 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 11:58:43 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPlRq-0003QG-00 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:58:42 +0200 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org ([80.91.231.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:58:42 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:58:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Coil's _Astral Disaster_: "2nd Sun Syndrome" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YeAUkpCFNcUb+ULtRSKYOnuXFW8= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57427 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57427 Per Abrahamsen writes: > The biggest problem is that w3 is not really maintained. If we could > just find a suck... hero to take over maintenance, it would be > excellent. It could also work as a specification language. It > actually already has a few extra tags for that purpose. Here is the > test (again) I wrote originally for that purpose: > > Yes, it's pretty neat, but I think it's kinda underspecified... > Anyway, I don't think brainstorming is what we need most. What we > need would be for someone to do the boring work of implementing a > saint using existing capabilities, and then use the experience for > writing tools making the next saint easier to write. Definitely. So I think I'll be going with a variant of what Ted suggested. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen