Re: multi-paged version of HTML 5

>        public-html-comments@w3.org
>Subject: Re: multi-paged version of HTML 5
>From: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
>
>On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:44:38 -0700, Nicolas Krebs  
><nicolas1.krebs3@netcourrier.com> wrote:
>> Due to the huge size of the HTML 5 specification
>> ( http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/ is 2 032 139 B long),
>> please add a multi-paged version, such in
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/Cover.html
>> (one page per section)
>> in http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ and in http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/ ,
>> in order to be able to point some spec' part without need of downloading
>> and displaying the 2 MB html.
>
>There is
>
>   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/
>
>for now. I'd expect that once the specification reaches a more stable  
>state and sections are less likely to move around a non-normative  
>multi-page version will be more feasible on TR/.

Done in http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/ . 

Thanks. 

Some others suggestions: 

-1 In http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080610/ add links to the compared spec, 
including 
in http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080610/#new-elements
section -> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/the-root.html#the-section
diff
-<p><code>section</code> represents a generic document or application
+<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/the-root.html#the-section"><code>section</code></a> represents a generic document or application

article -> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/the-root.html#the-article
aside -> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/the-root.html#the-aside
header -> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/the-root.html#the-header
and so on


in http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080610/#absent-elements
basefont -> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/present/graphics.html#edef-BASEFONT
big -> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/present/graphics.html#edef-BIG
center -> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/present/graphics.html#edef-CENTER
font -> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/present/graphics.html#edef-FONT
s -> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/present/graphics.html#edef-S
and so on


-2 In http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080610/#references add the link to dated spec

http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20030109
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xhtml11-20010531/ (already done)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names-20060816


-3 http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080610/#changelog could link to 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-html5-pubnotes-20080610/

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