Re: W3C/WHATWG overlap going forward

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:
> I think we're all agreed that publishing a specification for Slightly
> Different Kitchens isn't ideal. The open question is: what is?

I was thinking of Shiny Donkey Coalition referencing the toast
grilling algorithm in the Rainbow Unicorn Kitchen Specification and
noting that the Shiny Donkey Coalition, at this time, repudiates
remarks about buttering toast and about pizza-ordering fridges.

It seems to me that the problem is that Steve doesn't want to risk
people seeing the competing toast buttering remarks at all.

> Do you think it would be possible to address the granularity issue from the
> WHATWG end?

I haven't talked with Hixie about it lately, but, previously, the
attempt to spin off Window was a bad experience, so I don't really
expect WHATWG HTML to become modularized. Other than the WHATWG HTML
spec, it seems to me that specs over at the WHATWG are already
sufficiently granular.

> I don't know if it would be under the specific form that you are suggesting,
> but at some point I would love it if we could publish a specification that
> basically says "The Web Platform is this, that, and the other thing over
> there." But we're a number of collective steps away from that.

What do you think is the current main blocker for the W3C normatively
referencing a WHATWG spec over there?

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Friday, 12 December 2014 12:39:17 UTC