- From: Shawn Medero <soypunk@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:50:10 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Sam brings up a lot of valid points from his experience with bodies defining standards. There have been some chaotic efforts to manage this via the Wiki and even by the Editors themselves but there is clearly a lot of confusion (both in and outside of this working group) about what is going on with HTML 5. I eagerly volunteer to help with this effort. (though I am not sure *one* person alone can tackle it) ---- In addition it might be helpful to an organize those who offered to help with use case research and development. We need to fill out the background story on the issues with the spec as the arise and the Editors are constantly suggesting that they need more existing data to review. I do respect that many people don't have time or even access to the resources necessary to do this type of in-depth research - not everyone have access to millions of HTML documents that could be loaded into a text retrieval engine and scanned for occurrences of particular tags. It would be amazingly helpful if Google could open source some of the tools & data used to make their [Web Authoring Stats report][1]. (That said, I happen to work at place that collects terabytes of content for linguistics research and I know getting the IP rights to release our web data only for purposes of HTML research would be difficult. [We did work with Google to get a corpus out of them][2] but it was aimed at linguistics research and I believe it has all of the HTML markup stripped.) [1]: http://code.google.com/webstats/ [2]: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-are-belong-to-you.html
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