- From: Roger Johansson <roger@456bereastreet.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:11:55 +0200
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 28 apr 2007, at 00.06, Brad Fults wrote: > Somehow I think there is still much confusion surrounding the goals of > this working group, its proposed design "principles", and the goals of > the WHAT WG's "Web Applications 1.0" (AKA "HTML5") draft. Yes, there most definitely is. > - The are *two* primary objectives in the WHAT WG's "HTML5" draft: > > 1. A specification of the parsing requirements *for browser > vendors* to render the content on the web today. > 2. A specification of a language evolved from HTML 4 with new > language features *for content authors* that relies on those parsing > requirements. Thanks for explaining that. > The success of this group requires a conspicuous separation between > these two objectives, one concerning only browser vendors and one > primarily concerning content authors. And which objective concerns standards-aware web developers? From previous discussions here, it seems that "content authors" means "people with little or no knowledge of HTML". > The aforementioned proposed design principle, "Support Existing > Content" applies wholly and solely to #1 on this list. Ok, fine, then that doesn't apply to me. Phew. /R -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/
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