- From: Michael(tm) Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:52:49 +0900
- To: Nikunj Mehta <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
"Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, 2008-11-19 18:25 +0900: > The draft markup spec I put together is in part an attempt at > trying to lead by example a little -- in that there has been some > potential need expressed for a separate language spec without a > focus on browser implementation details, and nobody else had > stepped forward to produce a draft to try to address that. I realize after sending this that I should clarify that statement. Lachlan Hunt has been working on a guide[1] that focuses on the needs of authors instead of implementors -- and, at our face-to- face meeting, guiding a discussion with the group about it. http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/ It's not the kind of splitting-out of parts of spec that we've been discussing, but it does make the same point that I was trying to make in my message, in that Lachlan took personal initiative in taking time to put it together instead of waiting/expecting for somebody else to get around to doing it. I think if the group ends up delivering an authoring guide, it might likely be of more direct value to the wider community of authors and Web developers than anything else we produce. The draft markup spec I put together has a very different scope than that. In particular, the intent of it is for it to serve as a normative definition of the syntax and structure and semantics of HTML, without attempting to be an detailed authoring guide. As can be seen from recent discussion here, we don't have agreement as a group that we should actually produce a separate normative "markup spec" at all, nor that the details of it should be anything like those in my draft. --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/
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