[whatwg] W3C's Rich Web Client Activity and Web Application W/G

Robin Berjon robin.berjon at expway.fr
Wed Oct 12 23:44:23 PDT 2005


Hi Brad,

Brad Fults wrote:
> I would implore the W3C to officially denounce vapor terms such as
> "DHTML", "Ajax", and "Web 2.0" inside its new WGs. It helps no one
> when vaguely defined marketing buzzwords are used to describe very
> specific technologies and methods, much less in a standards-producing
> environment like the W3C.

I doubt the W3C can do much to legislate language, but I also doubt that 
people in the WG (when formed) will need reminding of that. The terms 
may be used in elevator pitches, but I'd expect that would be about it.

-- 
Robin Berjon
   Senior Research Scientist
   Expway, http://expway.com/




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