- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:53:28 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Karl Dubost wrote: >> Le 13 avr. 2007 à 04:46, James Graham a écrit : >>> All future versions of the spec should be developed under the premise >>> of "don't break the web" thereby making spec-version information in >>> documents unnecessary*. >>> >>> *Ignoring editors which may want to save metadata about a document, >>> including the HTML subset that is being used to edit it, which is not >>> useful outside of that editor. >> Authoring tools are *part of the Web* > > Sure, but the editor-specific metadata James mentioned isn't. It's not > required for interoperability outside of roundtripping through that > editor. > Indeed. A concrete example of data that an editor might want to save but which is not relevant to a browser (apart from the HTML/CSS version/subset being used) would be the position of the cursor at the time of save. -- "Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?" -- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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