- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:31:54 +0100
- To: John Kemp <john.kemp@nokia.com>
- CC: ext Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
John Kemp wrote: > Are we not then talking simply about a modularity issue? > > In other words, would it not be possible to make a normative HTML5 > language specification, and then reference that specification from > another that defined APIs and so on? > > One definitive source for the language, and a further definitive source > for the API, referencing the language specification. It has already been pointed out that that is effectively the model used by the HTML4 and DOM 2 HTML specs, and it has been shown to be a rather ineffective model for achieving well defined specifications and interoperable implementations. Please, let's not repeat the same mistakes again. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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