- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:13:49 -0600
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 16:18 +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:08:21 +0100, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> > wrote: > > I note that the list of interconnected aspects above does *not* contain > > the actual HTML5 document format :-). > > Navigation depends on <a>, <area>, <link>, etc. Parsing depends on > <script>. The HTML format depends on <script>, <a>, etc. Offline depends > on parsing and navigation. And writing HTML depends on offline. This stuff > has been said repeatedly on this mailing list already. Indeed, it has: [[ For example, the HTML parsing rules are deeply integrated with the handling of <script> elements, due to document.write(), and also are deeply integrated with the definition of innerHTML. Scripting, in turn, is deeply related to the concept of scripting contexts, which depends directly on the definition of the Window object and browsing contexts, which, in turn, are deeply linked with session history and the History object (which depends on the Location object) and with arbitrary browsing context navigation (which is related to hyperlinks and image maps) and its related algorithms (namely content sniffing and encoding detection, which, to complete the circle, is part of the HTML parsing algorithm). ]] -- Ian Hickson 14 Mar 2007 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007JanMar/0096.html p.s. It's somewhere between wasteful and rude to say that something has been discussed on this list without giving a pointer/excerpt. It assumes that everyone reads and remembers everything. A healthy group is always taking on new participants, and it's not reasonable to expect new participants to read and memorize the entire archive. I maintain an edited history of the group to encourage new participants to read something like log(N) of the messages... http://www.w3.org/html/wg/#events The tracker is also supposed to be a good way for new participants to get an overview of the proceedings reasonably quickly... http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/open -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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