RE: Formal definition of HTML5 (was Re: Version information)

<canvas>.  You've specified an entire immediate-mode graphics api, more extensive in some ways than GDI, without describing the parameters or giving rendering rules to get interoperable pixel-perfect rendering.

-C

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch]
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:47 PM
To: Chris Wilson
Cc: Anne van Kesteren; Henrik Dvergsdal; public-html@w3.org
Subject: RE: Formal definition of HTML5 (was Re: Version information)

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Chris Wilson wrote:
>
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> >HTML5 defines an exact way to generate conforming documents in prose and
> >an exact way to interpret a resource with a text/html MIME type (also in
> >prose).
>
> Umm, I think "exact" is a very strong word for what the prose of HTML5
> does.

Could you give any concrete examples of vagueness? I'd like to fix any
that are unintentional.

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