- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:53:32 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Jim Jewett wrote: > Jonas Sicking wrote: > > There is always going to be things in any given specification that > > some people don't need. > > Agreed; but if the spec is long, then you don't want many people for > whom the majority of the spec is unneeded. Should the Oxford English Dictionary be split into "common words" and "uncommon words"? How is that different? > Or, at the very least, you want to make it as clear as possible which > parts they can ignore, even before they start reading. Would providing views of the spec that hide certain topics, e.g. implementation requirements or scripting APIs, address your request? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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