- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:42:09 +0100
- To: Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 23 Jun 2007, at 18:04, Philip & Le Khanh wrote: > Dan Connolly wrote: > > > Speaking personally, my goal is that the specification we > > deliver is sufficient that new implementations based on it > > will interoperate with a critical mass of the deployed content > > on the web. Much (most?) of that content reflects > > poor authoring practices. These practices are very much > > relevant considerations for our design decisions. > > Dan, I think you are trying to hit two nails with one hammer. > > By all means let there be a specification for /browsers/ that > can handle the majority of extant content : but let that > specification not influence the design of HTML 5, which I > (for one) see as the primary task with which this group is > concerned. To put it another way, let the specification > for HTML 5 inform the specification for browsers; but > /please/ do in any way allow the specification for browsers > to inform the specification for HTML 5. Surely the parsing rules for HTML5 must be the same as those for existing content, though? - Geoffrey Sneddon
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