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Sebastian Rittau

Sebastian Rittau

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Tag: design by committee

Posted on 2005-10-072017-10-29

Standards

Mark Pilgrim posted a great article about the problems of many committee standardization processes. Microformats use a different approach: Design for the common case first, think about corner cases only later.

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