- From: Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:04:49 -1000
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote: > I think the discussion of whether these three HTML files should be be > in a separate "spec" is mostly about organizational aesthetics--it's > not about the implementability, and it's not about getting the > relevant text as separately addressable Web resources. I agree that pagination is not the issue. I don't think the scare quote is appropriate, and I disagree that such a separation is of no benefit to implementors, since I would have been glad to get such guidance for Mozilla work in the past. There are several use cases for HTML parsing that don't include script execution or any other browser API involvement. In fact, it is easy for me to recall sandboxing discussions where it was claimed that servers should "just use HTML parsers" instead of their current, insufficient filtering. I agree with that prescription, but I don't think the advice coming from the HTML5 crowd included script interpretation on the server side. > ... It's not horribly intertwined but there are some dependencies ... I agree. That's why I don't think splitting parsing *and* vocabulary into a separate document is unreasonable on its face. Ian Hickson wrote: > html5lib doesn't implement document.write, either; are you saying we > should have a different parser spec for UAs supporting scripting and UAs > not supporting scripting? > No. - Rob
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