- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:51:59 +0100
- To: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:15:52 +0100, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org> wrote: > I keep repeating it two things are needed: > > 1. Parsing algorithm and error recovery for consistent handling is cool. > [browsers] > 2. One recommended syntax and set of elements [authors] The specification addresses both those areas already. To make number 2 more approachable Lachlan Hunt stepped up to write a guide to HTML5 for Web designers because nobody else had started writing one. I believe he is also working on an article to be published by a well known online Web designer magazine. I have personally worked on a document that lists the differences compared to HTML4 which gives a high-level overview of what HTML5 will do and many Web designers gave feedback on that. Together with Ian Hickson I wrote http://dev.w3.org/html5/offline-webapps/ which gives an introduction to the Offline Web Application features of HTML5. We're still awaiting some more review comments I believe before to proceed with publication. Dan Connolly should know. > [...] I would hope that Browsers Implementers make the same step towards > the Web designers. > > That would be at least a good gesture towards the Web design community, > at best that would be a way to move forward faster. I believe the browser implementors are doing a lot already and investing a lot of resources into this effort, including communicating with the community. The WHATWG has been following feedback on weblogs since the start and tried to incorperate feedback from there. There's also a more approachable online forum on http://forums.whatwg.org/ if people do not want to join the mailing list of which feedback is also tracked by the WHATWG community. Now the WHATWG is not just browser vendors of course, but it does point out that there certainly has been happening a decent amount of outreach. I personally track feedback through blogsearch.google.com searching for "html5" but most of the time somebody else has already replied to the relevant thread, such as here: http://www.zeldman.com/2007/11/19/blue-beanie-day/#comment-23831 I'm sure we could do more and I'd love to here some concrete suggestions or maybe you could set an example by working on something you think should be done. I think that would be more productive than suggesting the Web browsers are somehow anti-Web author all the time, we're not. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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