Re: Splitting out sections from HTML5

Great stuff Ian! This is something I think a lot of people, me
included, is happy to see happening!

Of course I'd like to see even more stuff split out (*cough* window
*cough*), but I won't whine about it until I have an editor or draft
to propose :)

/ Jonas

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> I've now split out the Server-sent Events and Storage APIs out of HTML5,
> and I've removed the text for Web Sockets, which was split out earlier. By
> popular demand I've also done some tweaks to the styling of these specs.
>
>   HTML5
>   http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/
>
>   Server-Sent Events
>   http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/
>
>   Web Storage
>   http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/
>
>   Web Workers
>   http://dev.w3.org/html5/workers/
>
>   Web Sockets
>   http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/
>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol
>
> It is my understanding that the desire is to publish the Server-Sent
> Events, Web Storage, Web Workers, and Web Sockets specs through the Web
> Apps working group, so that is what I put into the "status of this
> document" sections.
>
> I would like to be able to put more permissive licenses (ideally MIT) on
> these drafts, rather than the W3C license.
>
> The following sections still haven't been split out:
>
>   URLs
>   I'll remove this section as soon as DanC's draft is published.
>
>   Content-Type sniffing
>   I'll remove this section once Adam's draft is on a standards track.
>
>   Timeout API
>   This section is lacking an active editor.
>
>   Origin
>   I'm unsure what will happen with this section.
>
> --
> Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
> http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
> Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
>
>

Received on Thursday, 19 March 2009 01:50:14 UTC