Re: Proposal to Adopt HTML5

Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
> I do wish though that <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/>
> would be made more accessible. It currently takes several minutes to be
> rendered and generates horizontal scrollbars (in every browser I tried). It
> would be much easier to review if it were split into chewable sections. It's
> currently too inaccessible to get a good overview or to quickly find the
> sections I'm interested in. It being this one huge chunk also makes it harder
> to keep track of changes.
> I know Ian plans to tackle this, but until it actually happens, discussion of
> Web Apps 1.0 is more difficult than it should have to be, which will
> discourage people from participating (I know such discouragement can have its
> positive sides too).
>   
I strongly agree with Sander here.  I brought this issue up on the 
WHATWG list but was told it would take too much effort to fix.  But I 
think that effort is really needed to help all people consume the spec.

-Mike
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Received on Thursday, 12 April 2007 01:32:44 UTC