- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:37:02 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/spec In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv25608 Modified Files: Overview.html Log Message: Clarify relationships with other W3C specs. (whatwg r1745) Index: Overview.html =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v retrieving revision 1.934 retrieving revision 1.935 diff -u -d -r1.934 -r1.935 --- Overview.html 12 Jun 2008 09:18:39 -0000 1.934 +++ Overview.html 12 Jun 2008 09:37:00 -0000 1.935 @@ -266,12 +266,18 @@ <li><a href="#scope"><span class=secno>1.1 </span>Scope</a> <ul class=toc> <li><a href="#relationship"><span class=secno>1.1.1 - </span>Relationship to HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.1, DOM2 HTML</a> + </span>Relationship to HTML 4.01 and DOM2 HTML</a> <li><a href="#relationship0"><span class=secno>1.1.2 - </span>Relationship to XHTML2</a> + </span>Relationship to XHTML 1.x</a> <li><a href="#relationship1"><span class=secno>1.1.3 + </span>Relationship to XHTML2</a> + + <li><a href="#relationship2"><span class=secno>1.1.4 + </span>Relationship to Web Forms 2.0 and XForms</a> + + <li><a href="#relationship3"><span class=secno>1.1.5 </span>Relationship to XUL, Flash, Silverlight, and other proprietary UI languages</a> </ul> @@ -2006,21 +2012,39 @@ Core APIs) are even further ahead. <h4 id=relationship><span class=secno>1.1.1 </span>Relationship to HTML - 4.01, XHTML 1.1, DOM2 HTML</h4> + 4.01 and DOM2 HTML</h4> <p><em>This section is non-normative.</em> - <p>This specification represents a new version of HTML4 and XHTML1, along - with a new version of the associated DOM2 HTML API. Migration from HTML4 - or XHTML1 to the format and APIs described in this specification should in - most cases be straightforward, as care has been taken to ensure that - backwards-compatibility is retained.</p> - <!-- XXX refs --> + <p>This specification represents a new version of HTML4, along with a new + version of the associated DOM2 HTML API. Migration from HTML4 to the + format and APIs described in this specification should in most cases be + straightforward, as care has been taken to ensure that + backwards-compatibility is retained. <a href="#references">[HTML4]</a> <a + href="#references">[DOM2HTML]</a> - <p>This specification will eventually supplant Web Forms 2.0 as well. <a - href="#references">[WF2]</a> + <h4 id=relationship0><span class=secno>1.1.2 </span>Relationship to XHTML + 1.x</h4> - <h4 id=relationship0><span class=secno>1.1.2 </span>Relationship to XHTML2</h4> + <p><em>This section is non-normative.</em> + + <p>This specification is intended to replace XHTML 1.0 as the normative + definition of the XML serialisation of the HTML vocabulary. <a + href="#references">[XHTML10]</a> + + <p>While this specification updates the semantics and requirements of the + vocabulary defined by XHTML Modularization 1.1 and used by XHTML 1.1, it + does not attempt to provide a replacement for the modularization scheme + defined and used by those (and other) specifications, and therefore cannot + be considered a complete replacement for them. <a + href="#references">[XHTMLMOD]</a> <a href="#references">[XHTML11]</a> + + <p>Thus, authors and implementors who do not need such a modularization + scheme can consider this specification a replacement for XHTML 1.x, but + those who do need such a mechanism are encouraged to continue using the + XHTML 1.1 line of specifications. + + <h4 id=relationship1><span class=secno>1.1.3 </span>Relationship to XHTML2</h4> <p><em>This section is non-normative.</em> @@ -2041,7 +2065,23 @@ <p>XHTML2 and this specification use different namespaces and therefore can both be implemented in the same XML processor. - <h4 id=relationship1><span class=secno>1.1.3 </span>Relationship to XUL, + <h4 id=relationship2><span class=secno>1.1.4 </span>Relationship to Web + Forms 2.0 and XForms</h4> + + <p><em>This section is non-normative.</em> + + <p>This specification will eventually supplant Web Forms 2.0. The current + Web Forms 2.0 draft can be considered part of this specification for the + time being; its features will eventually be merged into this + specification. <a href="#references">[WF2]</a> + + <p>As it stands today, this specification is unrelated and orthognoal to + XForms. When the forms features defined in HTML4 and Web Forms 2.0 are + merged into this specification, then the relationship to XForms described + in the Web Forms 2.0 draft will apply to this specification. <a + href="#references">[XForms]</a> + + <h4 id=relationship3><span class=secno>1.1.5 </span>Relationship to XUL, Flash, Silverlight, and other proprietary UI languages</h4> <p><em>This section is non-normative.</em>
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