Nobody waits for everyone else; that's how open standards move
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nobody asks, nobody waits for, for another person to implement something before they implement something, or nothing ever gets done.
Episode 43: What are they building? Oh yeah that question and many more shall be answered (approx., from transcript intro) 00:37:05 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Answering a claim that apps wait for the biggest players before adopting 2.0 features, Dave says that's circular reasoning. If everyone waited for everyone else, nothing would happen. In open, decentralized processes like RSS, someone has a good idea, writes the spec, builds reference implementations, then evangelizes until others spend developer time on it.
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Episode 43: What are they building? Oh yeah that question and many more shall be answered (approx., from transcript intro) 00:37:48 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
somebody has a good idea. They, they write up the spec and the framework for it. They, they they do some reference implementations to show how it works and to show, you know, the benefits of it. And then they evangelize it.
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