- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:52:04 -0500
- To: Asbjørn Ulsberg <list@asbjorn.ulsberg.no>
- CC: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Again, there is no need for the normative specification to be > author-friendly. In my opinion. Just to clarify. The specification needs to provide the functionality authors need, and it needs to enable tools to be written that will enable authors to author and others to view the stuff they've authored. If it's also very readable, that's great. If it's less readable because that makes things better defined or easier to deal with for implementors of said tools, that's the way the leaning should go. Making things more difficult for the spec's primary consumers (which is not HTML authors themselves) to make it more readable for authors isn't the right tradeoff. Still in my opinion. I've seen a number of people agreeing with this opinion, though, so I think I'm not alone here. -Boris
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