Re: A bit of electioneering on the <canvas> charter issue

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> We 
> should interpret the charter as covering all reasonable application and 
> document features. Otherwise, we will have to recharter every time 
> someone realizes we are missing important functionality that doesn't 
> already have a detailed line item in the charter.

Such a charter interpretation creates a good chance of HTML5 never being 
complete.  There are a lot of ideas that somebody out there considers 
reasonable.  And next year, there will be more.

One thing that I think would be reasonable, would be for the charter to 
define a clear mechanism by which new markup and new DOM APIs can be 
added without modifying the "core" definition of HTML5.  Such a effort 
could be grounded by real use cases: SVG, MathML, canvas, offline-sql.

But that's only what I think would be reasonable to do.

- Sam Ruby