- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 01:35:59 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Eduard Pascual <herenvardo@gmail.com>
- Cc: Fenton Travers <fenton_travers@yahoo.com>, Jock Murphy <jockm@stufflabs.com>, public-html-comments@w3.org
On Mon, 3 May 2010, Eduard Pascual wrote: > > For example, how doable would be to automatically generate a filtered > document with only those features that are at least supported by two > implementations (ie: they pass all the relevant tests)? It would probably be pretty hard because of the cross-dependencies. > A key advantage here is that a snapshot can be frozen without > interfering with spec advancement. For example, no matter what changes > are made next month, a "HTML Snapshot May 2010" would remain unaffected. > > This would allow implementations to claim conformance with a given > snapshot, which is more useful for users when comparing available > options than vague claims such as "already supports a lot of HTML5 > features". Browsers don't generally claim to support a particular version, unless they're lying. For example, nobody has ever implemented all of HTML4 correctly. I don't think that's been a problem. I'm more interested in having the spec be realistic and useful for implementors and authors than optimising it for making it easier to make claims of conformance. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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