- From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:40:38 +0000
- To: public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > Should the Oxford English Dictionary be split into "common words" and > "uncommon words"? How is that different? Actually, it is. There is a Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (which, despite the name is still two very hefty volumes) containing all the common words, and the full Oxford English Dictionary containing pretty much all the English words which have been uttered by anyone at any point in history. (Though the former contains a subset of the words of the latter: they are not disjoint.) A better analogy might be taking a "rulebook for using the English language" and splitting it up into separate books - the first providing just the vocabulary; the next explaining how grammar and punctuation work; another dealing with pronunciation; and another teaching essay writing. It's not a matter of separating out what's common and what's not common. It's a matter of separating out the markup language (HTML), its API (DOM) and scripting environment features (SQL, storage, history, etc). Something like Javascript-accessible SQL has nothing to do with the HTML5 markup language per se - it just so happens that many people will use them together. As proof: I don't imagine that many browsers will prevent SQL API being used by HTML4 pages or XHTML2 pages. Some may also allow SVG and MathML to use it. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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