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As science and technology advance, we need to take back technologies that anybody can build, use and repair. Fujimura thinks that is one of the keys to stopping runaway science and technology.

Then it really hit me: Developer-driven startups always produce product faster.This stands to reason: our nontechnical people are having discussions and debates while Zuckerberg is coding his next feature. This is why no one has been able to keep up with Facebook!

People just aren't that interested in what other people think. And it's damned difficult to speak your mind 140 characters at a time. Most of the time you can anticipate in advance what the misunderstandings will be, and self-edit. Then self-censor.

Video is an integral part of the modern web experience, which is why Mozilla has been working for the past few years to make sure that video can be used in the ways necessary to sustain the web’s incredible growth and generativity. Today we’re excited to join Google in announcing the WebM project to advance web video, including Google’s release of the VP8 codec under open source and royalty-free terms.

# karl Says:

May 4th, 2010 at 12:09 am

David,

How do you handle these challenges, I can imagine, in the case of an organization like Mozilla (or any big companies).

1. Do you get reviews from the people who are supposed to work on the specific parts mentioned by the charter?

2. Do you plan in advance who will be potentially available for committing work to the Working Group (in terms of comments and spec reviews)?

3. How Mozilla validates its development choices. For example, here you’re saying “No Web SQL database, no widgets”, is it defined by the lack of resources? or by a more general technical choice in a roadmap?

That is part of the questions I always had when I was in W3C Team. Life of a working group can be really constraining for work schedules and the right balance is difficult to achieve. Sometimes 20% of time seems to be nothing. I’m painfully aware of it, now that I’m not 100% at W3C and having a swallowing-time-job.

# aruner Says:

May 4th, 2010 at 9:06 am

@karl (this is Arun responding):

1. Yes, David typically solicits reviews from folks in the WG in question.

2. Yes, we generally plan in advance who might be on call to review specifications.

3. In the case of Web SQL Database, we were pretty much mostly in consensus that hitching our wagons to SQLite wasn’t the right choice for a web API (nor was stringifying SQL statements in JS desirable to developers), and that the web needed a better database model. We think IndexedDB sounds promising. And as for widgets, we’re pretty much in consensus that there are more important things to work on.

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