Re: Proposal to Adopt HTML5

On Apr 10, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Elliott Sprehn wrote:

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> This seems okay. I do have one concern regarding his comments that  
> the WHATWG will continue development of their spec separately.  
> Others have already made comments that "Hixie's time would be  
> better spent..." and it seems that if his time is better spent  
> doing anything its working on this spec and not the WHAT WG spec  
> since that's going to be largely a redundant task.

My hope is that both specs can be the same document. The W3C has done  
this sort of thing before, with Web Forms 2 and XBL2. Other standards  
organizations have done joint standards before as well, for instance  
AVC/H.264 is a joint effort between the ISO and the ITU. In the worst  
case, Ian has already said he wants to keep the WHATWG spec strictly  
a compatible superset and I think that is a worthy goal.

Regards,
Maciej