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I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I read the comments to Proposal for the W3C to adopt HTML 5.

I love how people are so keen to find crazy theories and to throw mud at people based on the most bizarre reading of the situation.

Some of the commenters truly are in a bizarro-like universe as David says:

Reading the comments on this is absolutely astonishing. Ian Hixon a corporate pawn? Mozilla, Opera, Google, Apple, and Microsoft all teaming up in a conspiracy to mess up the internet? What kind of bizarre parallel universe are you people living in?

"Dave Hyatt" has the best response:

I would like to take the time to respond to this in detail, but my Evil Underling beeper has just gone off. My overlord and master Ian Hickson has summoned me to his underground lair beneath Google to discuss further our plans for global domination.

Come on people. Before you spew this crud, take part in the conversation and see what is really happening. It is easy to blow hard.

I feel like I need to apologise to Ian for this crap. Fortunately, I know that a magnitude more people do not comment, but read, and they aren't fooled.