Re: Level of specification detail

+1.

-- Dylan Smith

on 4/11/07 7:09 PM, Mike Schinkel at w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com wrote:

> 
> ryan wrote:
>> What we lack is a specification for how to implement HTML user agents
>> that is unambiguous, rigorous, complete and has a test suite.
>> 
>> I don't think this WG needs to worry about educating authors, instead
>> it should focus, at least in the near term on bridging the divide
>> between HTML "as specified" (HTML4) and HTML "as implemented" (which
>> is what HTML5 is designed to do).

> A specification that only addresses the needs of implementors but not
> the needs of authors will be, by definition, incomplete.

Received on Thursday, 12 April 2007 06:45:39 UTC