- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:57:09 -0500
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Toby Inkster wrote: >> People writing HTML5 browsers would still have a definitive spec to aim >> for: _The HTML5 Browser_. Ian wrote: > I don't know why there is such an obsession over the browser. There are > plenty of other UAs for which this work makes sense, like search engines, > data mining tools, validators, authoring tools, etc. For the markup, yes. For Workers, or Offline Web Applications, or Server-Sent Events, or the Window object ... much less so. Which is precisely why there is such a push to split some of them. If the HTML spec were the same size as the XML:ID spec, most people wouldn't worry. But the HTML5 spec is large enough that we should be looking for things that *can* be split off, instead of just things that don't fit. Parts that apply to only some spec users are good candidates. And most of those parts apply to the browser. -jJ
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