Re: relevance of diverse HTML authoring practices [was: Versioning re-visited ...]

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

Received on Sunday, 24 June 2007 20:42:28 UTC