Comments on: Monkey Business http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/03/23/monkey-business/ The official AllPeers blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:49:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Jeremy Dunck http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/03/23/monkey-business/#comment-2507 Jeremy Dunck Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:12:53 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/03/23/monkey-business/#comment-2507 Yep. Tim Bray has made the point (repeatedly) that technologies succeed when they hit the 80/20 point. And that standardization should occur on the basis of experience, and not innovation. People didn't cook up the cookie spec before the web went live. There was a lot of existing art that informed the requirements and security concerns. I'm happy to make this useful mess. I think the web will be pushed forward (in a small way) on the basis of what we're learning. Yep. Tim Bray has made the point (repeatedly) that technologies succeed when they hit the 80/20 point.

And that standardization should occur on the basis of experience, and not innovation.

People didn’t cook up the cookie spec before the web went live. There was a lot of existing art that informed the requirements and security concerns.

I’m happy to make this useful mess. I think the web will be pushed forward (in a small way) on the basis of what we’re learning.

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