- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <gsneddon@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:22:13 +0200
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, public-canvas-api@w3.org, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:47:07 +0200, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote: >> On Aug 18, 2009, at 08:55 , Anne van Kesteren wrote: >>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:49:57 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> >>> wrote: >>>> The parts of HTML5 defining things like the Window object and >>>> origins could in theory be factored out, but it's decidedly >>>> nontrivial to do so. >>> >>> I think it would be awesome if someone would take the effort to split >>> Window, origin, storage mutex, event loop, navigation, page loading, >>> etc. out. >> >> Admittedly I haven't looked closely enough, but I thought that a bunch >> of existing documents were generated from the same source. Assuming >> that would be the right way to do it, what sort of effort would be >> involved in producing another generated document? > > The things that have been splitted out so far are fairly standalone. > That is not the case for the things mentioned above. Then again, it has > not been tried, so no idea. The primary consequence of that is that the majority of those specs would have heavy cross-dependencies, and without having any automated way to have cross-document cross-references, that would become hard to follow. -- Geoffrey Sneddon — Opera Software <http://gsnedders.com/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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