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# 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.

MonetDB is a open-source database system for high-performance applications in data mining, OLAP, GIS, XML Query, text and multimedia retrieval. MonetDB often achieves a significant speed improvement for SQL and XQuery over other open-source systems. Use the product strands as your roadmap for exploration.

Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities.

Sorry, but most of those JScript deviations are not candidate de facto standards -- they are just your bugs to fix. They should not stall ES4 for one second.