- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:21:32 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Toby A Inkster wrote: > > I would have thought that splitting out, say, the SQL stuff into a > separate specification might allow the HTML spec to reach completion > sooner as it would not be held back by a tangental area that clearly > still needs a lot of work before it could be considered a fully usable > specification. Splitting it out would allow people working on the SQL > spec time to decide and write up exactly which subset of SQL is > supported without worrying about holding up the entire project. Such > decisions and documentation would surely be very important for the > production of multiple interoperable implementations of a candidate > recommendation. Yeah, if that becomes an issue we can always split it out. No point doing it yet, though, as we are literally a decade or more out from the core parts of the spec being interoperably implemented. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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