Re: relevance of diverse HTML authoring practices [was: Versioning re-visited ...]

On Jun 24, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Karl Dubost wrote:

>
> Le 25 juin 2007 à 08:47, Maciej Stachowiak a écrit :
>> If I understand your proposal correctly, it is to have a  
>> specification for what browsers should implement, and then a  
>> separate real HTML5 that is completely uninformed by the browser  
>> specification. It seems to me, then, that this second  
>> specification would be an excercise in pointlessness, since by  
>> design browsers would not support it, and therefore content would  
>> have no reason to follow it.
>
> Hmm the way I understand it.
>
> * HTML Parsing for browsers is good, very good. And everyone  
> understands it now. I think most Web designers understood this part.
> * At the same time Web developers/designers are asking for clear  
> semantics of simple HTML tags with a strict serialization.
>
> Both are not incompatible at all, and that would be a nice compromise.
> It is what is proposed in most cases.
>
> Browsers consume HTML.
> Web developers produce HTML.

Sure, and that's why HTML5 includes conformance requirements for both  
consumers and producers, and the requirements for producers are more  
strict. The poster I was responding to said that they spec for  
producers should not be in any way informed by the spec for  
consumers, which seems like a bad idea.

Cheers,
Maciej