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Ian Hickson

What Ian Hickson thinks about design

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British software engineer; editor of the HTML specification at the WHATWG and a founder of Flutter, at Opera Software and then at Google from 2005 to 2023.

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  1. Our readingComplaints about the things you chose not to prioritise are a sign your design succeeded, and should not be fixed.

    Their wordsThe worst thing to do, when you receive such complaints, is take them to heart and try to fix them. This is because by definition you wanted these complaints. They are a sign that the thing you built is built as you wanted to build it.

    ↗When complaints are a good signln.hixie.ch

  2. 5 months earlier

  3. Our readingWhen browsers disagree with a web specification, the specification is wrong and must change.

    Their wordsThe WHATWG was founded on this core principle — the specifications need to actually specify reality. When the browsers disagree with the spec, the spec is by definition incorrect and needs to change, regardless of how much technically superior the design in the spec is.

    ↗Power dynamics in web specificationsln.hixie.ch 2nd of 2 in this piece