Re: An HTML language specification

Mark Baker wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>> Could _you_ elaborate in detail on what makes a "language" spec vs
>> whatever the HTML5 spec is?
> 
> A language specification defines the language and the mappings to and
> from a serialized form.  In other words then, I believe HTML 5 should
> be limited to (roughly) sections 1, 3, and 8 of the latest published
> WD.

This means that SVG is also not a good spec since it defines both 
scripting APIs and rendering as well as the markup itself?

/ Jonas

Received on Monday, 17 November 2008 08:44:54 UTC