[Bug 8365] Remove the Web Browsers Section 6

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8365





--- Comment #12 from Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>  2009-11-25 01:10:27 ---

> It looks like there is link traversal, navigation, and networking support, even
> if somewhat restricted. It looks like there are no frames or scripting.
> 

I wouldn't include networking per se. 

> > 
> > Now, it doesn't make use of all HTML elements. At the same time, the ePub folks
> > aren't coming into the HTML WG and demanding that we support OPF in HTML5,
> > either. Why? Because that's application specific, and doesn't have a place in a
> > general purpose language such as HTML.
> 
> Since ePub is defined as a subset of XHTML, it doesn't make sense to me to
> remove anything from the HTML5 spec on the basis that ePub doesn't need it.
> It's already a subset specification. 
>

I wouldn't remove any element of HTML because only one user agent uses only a
subset. But I don't think user agents should impose their own unique
requirements, either. 

> > 
> > All applications that make use of HTML or XHTML have their own requirements and
> > needs. The appropriate procedure is to define specifications for the
> > application functionality, and leave the HTML markup for the HTML WG.
> > 
> 
> It's true that there are different kinds of HTML clients. HTML5 provides for
> this with a variety of conformance classes:
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#conformance-requirements
>

There should be a simplified set of conformation requirements for all clients
related to HTML, XHTML, and the DOM.

> It clearly says that non-scripting UAs are exempt from implementing any of the
> scripting features, for instance. The scripting features in section 6 don't
> look any different to me in this regard than other scripting- and event-related
> requirements throughout the spec.
>

Again, though, I don't think that we should be including application specific
requirements into what should be a general markup language, and associated DOM. 

To be honest, we're in a real risk of never being able to be finished with
HTML5 because we keep letting new requirements push out the scope. 

> There doesn't seem to be explicit provision for HTML clients that support
> interaction, but never navigate (such as mail clients).
> 


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