- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:50:36 +0200
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:30:59 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > On Jul 1, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Laura Carlson wrote: > >> >> Publishing the differences document before coming to consensus on the >> design principles is backward. >> >> No agreed upon principles, at best result in decisions (e.g. >> dropping/adding/changing elements and attributes) without foundation. > > I think you may be misunderstanding the goals of the differences > document. This document is not a set of decisions. It's just a factual > description of how the current HTML5 draft differs from HTML 4.01. It > does not require any kind of design principles to record this factual > information. Indeed. To the extent that it is accurate, it allows me (and you and anyone who reads english) to discover that the current draft is lacking longdesc, has a different model for map, and doesn't include accesskeys - which means that clearly we need to explain why those things are important to us (if they are) so the group can resolve to fix the problem. I am all for publishing the document - and the draft itself, although I disagree with various parts of its current state. In particular, because for some people it is very difficult to review a rapidly changing draft, and for many people keeping up with the mailing list is impossible. I received a specific request along these lines from a company who is vitally interested in the future of HTML but doesn't have the english-language capacity of most of the people who actually write to this list regularly. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk chaals@opera.com Catch up: Speed Dial http://opera.com
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