- From: Ben 'Cerbera' Millard <cerbera@projectcerbera.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:59:05 +0100
- To: "Sander Tekelenburg" <st@isoc.nl>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: "HTMLWG" <public-html@w3.org>
Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > The multipage version works much better: > <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-sections.html#the-address>. > > Is it not possible to move the multi-page version to the W3C domain? (And > hope that more people will refer to it, instead of to the current browser > killer?) I echo this request. A specification which is less usable is likely to be less used. I find the multipage HTML5 easier and more convenient to use. Some large W3C specs use one or just a few pages, such as [XML], [WCAG1] and [WCAG2]. Others are spread over several pages where each page contains one major section or module, such as [HTML4], [MathML], [CSS3]. So there is a precedent for either approach at W3C. Myself and other "standards aware" authors often refer to specific features of HTML and CSS. We typically use: * Index of HTML [Elements] to find the closest semantic match to what we are marking up. * Index of HTML [Attributes] to check spelling; check enumerated values; find ways to add extra functionality to elements; and check how features are supposed to work. * CSS [Properties] list to check spelling; find the right value for enumerated attributes; read the specified behaviour of a property to check if a problem is with our code or in the browser; as well as looking for alternative techniques when browsers don't support what we want. The HTML5 multipage version starts with a full [ToC] without downloading the entire spec. This makes navigation within the document convenient, much like the indices I have liste. In day-to-day authoring, a usable spec makes it a simpler and more pleasant task to double-check technical details. [XML] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#contents> [WCAG1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#toc> [WCAG2] <http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#contents> [HTML4] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/#minitoc> [MathML] <http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML/#contents> [CSS3] <http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work> [Elements] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html> [Attributes] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html> [Properties] <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html> [ToC] <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/#contents> -- Ben 'Cerbera' Millard Collections of Interesting Data Tables <http://sitesurgeon.co.uk/tables/readme.html>
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