- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:04:37 -0800
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jan 29, 2009, at 3:37 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > > On Thursday 2009-01-29 23:30 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: >> So you are asking for a link saying "Common attributes" linking to: >> >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#global- >> attributes >> >> ...to be added to every element's definition? >> >> I've so far tried to avoid redundant links like that. > > I think that's actually quite useful, since it makes it a good bit > easier to use the spec as a reference, and to understand parts of > the spec by exploring from a piece in the middle. I agree that it would be convenient for reference purposes, even though strictly speaking redundant. One difficulty I have had with other specs, both as implementor and content author, is that it is sometimes hard to figure out what attributes (or APIs or content model) apply to a given element, so I know how to use it properly. For example, with the SVG 1.1 spec I have to read chunks of schema scattered over many parts of the document to know what attributes apply. To be fair though, this has been less of a problem with the HTML5 draft since I know there are exactly two places to look -- the definition of the element and the list of global attributes. Regards, Maciej
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