An HTML language specification

Hi Ian,

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Mark Baker wrote:
>>
>> I don't believe there should be a "producers spec" and a "consumers
>> spec".  I believe there should be a single "language spec" - in the
>> same vein as HTML 4, CSS, SVG, etc.
>
> The HTML5 spec _is_ the language spec.
>
> If you don't think it's a language spec, could you elaborate in detail on
> what makes a "language" spec vs whatever the HTML5 spec is? How does the
> HTML5 spec differ from CSS2.1 or SVG in terms of what a language spec is?

I think we've had this discussion before 8-)

As often happens, Roy says it better than I could;

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Nov/0430.html

Mark.