http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2009/12/01/google-is-moving-away-from-google-gears/ Robert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and Tech Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:07:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2009/12/01/google-is-moving-away-from-google-gears/comment-page-1/#comment-832819 Simon Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:53:47 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/?p=3102#comment-832819 And contrary to your earlier post, I think this is how things work. Innovation comes from people introducing their own features (XMLHttpRequest, Gears, etc), which once proven to work can be adopted elsewhere and incorporated into the standards. You can't just sit in standards committees and wait for decisions to be made - you need to build new things, and feed them back to those committees as a source of ideas and experience. And contrary to your earlier post, I think this is how things work. Innovation comes from people introducing their own features (XMLHttpRequest, Gears, etc), which once proven to work can be adopted elsewhere and incorporated into the standards. You can’t just sit in standards committees and wait for decisions to be made – you need to build new things, and feed them back to those committees as a source of ideas and experience.

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