Re: Proposal for developing HTML 5 materials for Web *authors*

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Karl Dubost wrote:
> 
> During the last F2F at the Technical Plenary in Cambridge, we had a 
> lively discussion on [HTML 5 for authors][2] and more precisely the lack 
> of materials for people developing and designing Web sites. The 
> traditional readers of HTML Specifications were by large the Web 
> development community. The [HTML 5 Editor draft][1] has been written 
> with the implementers in mind. Then the usual community is at lost 
> reading the document.

Note that this is a known issue and that it is intended that when the spec 
becomes more stable, the markup be annotated so as to more easily allow 
efforts such as this:

   http://html5.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/author-view-of-html5/

...to be created and trivially maintained. (Indeed, it may be easy for the 
spec itself to just have two buttons at the top to select which mode 
should be shown.)

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