- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:08:21 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Sam Ruby wrote: >> Why is "the" (as in one and only) specification the only document in >> which this information can make it onto a W3C site? I've seen several >> specifications which are spread across volumes. Can't different volume >> in a series be in different states at any given time? > > There are a few reasons, but primarily the parts are too interconnected. > (For example, the offline stuff has to integrate with the navigation stuff > and the parsing stuff, which has to integrate with the scripting stuff, > and soon enough you've brought in most of the current spec.) > ... I note that the list of interconnected aspects above does *not* contain the actual HTML5 document format :-). BR, Julian
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