- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:22:25 +0100
- To: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- CC: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
James Graham wrote:
> I am concerned that this working group may quickly gain a reputation for
> being dysfunctional if we are not able to produce any deliverables. If
> publishing a simple factual precis of the differences between HTML4 and
> the current HTML 5 draft is this hard, I cannot imagine the working
> group will ever agree on something substantial like publishing an actual
> spec.
I think that is a very realistic appraisal, and not one that
fills me with unmitigated horror. At the moment, I simply
cannot see HTML 5 [1] as a step forward; a step sideways, yes --
in some ways better than HTML 4.01, in some ways poorer.
But if we cannot agree a specification that 98.5%+ of us agree
is indisputably /better/ than HTML 4.01, then in my honest
opinion it is better that we publish nothing.
Philip Taylor
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[1] As currently proposed, and as currently
derivable from information in the "Differences
from HTML 4.01" document.
Received on Tuesday, 3 July 2007 14:22:45 UTC