- From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:03:48 +0000
- To: public-html@w3.org
Michael(tm) Smith wrote: > During our face-to-face joint meeting with the W3C TAG in > Mandelieu, a large part of our discussion with the TAG[1] > concerned the idea of producing a separate normative spec for > HTML5 that defined just the syntax, structure, and semantics of > the language for "producers" of HTML content Wonderful. I argued a while back that all that all those parsing rules ought to be stripped out into another specification. The HTML5 draft defines way too much to be user-friendly to the vast majority of its audience who are not browser vendors. HTML5 should define syntax rules, elements, attributes and entities. DOM5 (or perhaps DOM4 if skipping a version number was looked down upon) should be a separate document defining the DOM side of HTML5. All the SQLite storage stuff, most of chapter 4 should be split out as a "Window Object spec". A "HTML5 Browser" spec should be put together, including HTML5 parsing rules, and normatively referencing the above three specs, as well as ECMAScript, CSS 2.1/3, PNG and perhaps a few other useful specs. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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