- From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:31:06 +0200
- To: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-colloquial-contrib@w3.org
On Sunday, 18 September 2011 at 17:16, Dave Pawson wrote: > On 18 September 2011 15:38, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com (mailto:w3c@marcosc.com)> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Dave Pawson wrote: > > > > > Up a level? What you have above is a definition of a 'standards document'? > > Correct, it's actually a "de jure" standard: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure_standard > > > > > I might take a view that a 'standard' is something widely used as a > > > common [api? format?] > > I see, that is referred to as a "de facto standard": > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard > > Good enough for me. > > > > > > > > I.e. having a document is the first part (mostly necessary), the > > > real standard is > > > the next stage where the document is widely used, without (much) extension. > > > Is sax a 'standard' compared to html? > > So sax would be the de facto standard. I guess so, yes: as there is no formal standard for SAX, AFIK. Yet, there are lots of tools that parse XML using the SAX model. > HTML 5 (as yet) de joure? That one is interesting, actually. It's trying to formalise the de jure use of HTML into a proper standard (ratified through the W3C, initially developed by the informal WHATWG … which is a consortium, but not in the traditional sense… more like an open source project) > > Anyway, we should settle on one or two tasks for the group to begin with. > > +1 > > Any favourites yet? further proposals? My personal interests are in markup usage: http://code.google.com/webstats/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama/ and API design patterns: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama-scripting-syntax-and-features/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama-script-tokenization-javascript-dom/ I wonder if we can pick up where those guys left off?
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