- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 12:24:02 -0400
- To: David Dailey <david.dailey@sru.edu>
- Cc: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>,HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
At 11:31 AM 5/1/2007 -0400, David Dailey wrote: >At 10:14 AM 5/1/2007, Murray Maloney wrote: > >>Sorry. This doesn't help me at all. It still speaks to user agents. >> >> HTML 5 will be a superset of all previous incarnations of HTML, >> whether as W3C specification, user agent instantiations, or >> instances of HTML documents on the web and on intranets. >> (As a result, user agents which can accommodate HTML 5 should >> be able to accommodate earlier versions of HTML.) >> >>Does that say what needs to be said? > >Hi Murray. It is back to a place now that I can understand it again. So >that's good. (I also understand now that merely changing wording from >browser to UA was not enough.) But now I think it may have two problems >(#1 is more serious but, alas, rather longwinded. #2 may just reflect my >poor understanding of what it means to be a superset). Your problem #1 seems to be a scripting problem, not an HTML problem. Your problem #2 seems to be the result of me using the term "set" when that is clearly not what I really meant to say. It would be unreasonable to think that HTML 5 should include such items as <BLINK> or <MARQUEE>, so I didn't really mean that HTML 5 should be a proper susperset. But superset captures the intent better than anything else that I have seen. So? How do we narrow it down?
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