30 years ago today, we started putting images on the web. Marc Andressen proposed adding the IMG tag to HTML.
@dragosr So the dynamic of "standard" as "I have implemented this in my browser and now the rest of you must too or you'll be behind" started right at the beginning
@aburka in the early days of consensus internet a working implementation went a lot further than a proposal that would get bikeshedded to death on Usenet, tho.
Proud as I am to have been blocked by MA on Twitter ages ago for politely calling bullshit on some fuckery or other, this isn't the worst way to go about presenting an idea for negotiating a change to a standard. "Let's try it, and if it works, share with others" isn't the worst approach.
@reneestephen
isn't it still the way things are done? yeah, you need to make a spec and propose it, but if you come with working code that just cuts down on so much variation from underspecified parts of the system to have a reference implementation
@aburka @dragosr
