[whatwg] Correcting some misconceptions about Responsive Images

Tab Atkins Jr. jackalmage at gmail.com
Thu May 17 17:16:52 PDT 2012


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
> CGs actually have very little patent obligation compared to W3C Working Groups, so Apple has lighter weight approval for those than for WGs. Perhaps Google could consider the same thing. I believe the CG rules would not allow an employee of a W3C Member company to be a "free agent" though.

I can't speak for our lawyers, but I do plan to complain about the
situation internally.  It adds a pretty tremendous mental transaction
cost to me joining a CG, and that's unfortunate.

~TJ



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