- From: Henrik Dvergsdal <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:10:28 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
On 10. apr. 2007, at 21.16, L. David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 2007-04-10 20:38 +0200, Henrik Dvergsdal wrote: >> If we are to make a jump like this, I think it we should have a >> really strict delta document. One that we can trust contains all >> significant aspects of differences between the HTML4 and HTML5 specs >> at all times. This should not be just a wiki. I think the editor >> should be responsible for keeping it up to date as the proposal >> evolves. > > I don't think this makes sense. > > One of the problems I hope this group will solve is that HTML4 is > frequently ambiguous and often lacks conformance requirements where > it should have them. In other words, it frequently doesn't define > the things a spec ought to be defining. Many parts of it are not > useful at any level deeper than as a list of requested features, and > I don't think it's useful, or worth anyone's time, to track > differences between a list of requested features and an actual > specification designed to lead to interoperable implementations. > I simply disagree on this. I have used HTML as an author/developer since its inception and I admit has some loose ends, but describing (part of) it as being just a list of features is going a bit far. -- Henrik
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