HTML Design Principles now First Public Working Draft

This is an announcement of the publication of the HTML Design
Principles document as a First Public Working Draft in TR space on
the W3C site:

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-html-design-principles-20071126/

A short news item about publication of HTML Design Principles is
currently the featured item on the W3C home page. That news item
is also here:

  W3C Seeks Community Support for HTML Design Principles
  http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item250

Full text:

  2007-11-26: The HTML Working Group[1] has published the First
  Public Working Draft of HTML Design Principles[2]. This document
  describes the set of guiding principles used by the HTML Working
  Group for the development of HTML5, expected to define the fifth
  major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web. These
  design principles are an attempt to capture consensus on design
  approach in the areas of compatibility, utility,
  interoperability, and universal access. Learn more about the
  HTML Activity[3]

  [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
  [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-html-design-principles-20071126/
  [3] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity

Publication of HTML Design Principles as a First Public Working
Draft gives the public and other W3C working groups an opportunity
to review the document and to provide comments on it to the editors
by posting those comments to the public-html-comments@w3.org
mailing list:

  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/

If you're interested in following public discussion of HTML
Design Principles, consider subscribing to that list.

  --Mike

-- 
Michael(tm) Smith
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