- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 04:49:37 +0200
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- CC: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Jonas Sicking On 09-05-26 01.03: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote: > >> The W3C HTML working group is currently chartered: >> >> http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html >> >> to produce one thing: >> >> A language evolved from HTML4 for describing the semantics of >> documents and applications on the World Wide Web. >> >> I'm not sure how "from scratch" fits into this, as a basis >> for any document in W3C, especially a "Design Principles" >> document which purports to explain how the HTML4 language >> "evolved" into the current specification. >> > > Personally I think the whole discussion about if HTML5 started from > scratch or started from HTML4 is a red herring. The only point where > I've heard the issue come up is in regards to if some features, like > @summary and @profile, were "removed" or if they were "not added". > Which seems like a to-may-to/to-mah-to discussion to me. > If you love tomatoes but do not get any because you do not pronounce it right, then it matters. > Can anybody show where it makes a difference how we arrived at the > current HTML5 draft from hixie? > Larry talked about how any extension of the language is blocked due to the writing style of Ian. As a matter of fact @profile is about extending the language. May be "cut off" is a better phrase than "from scratch". I think that the HTML 4 + XHTML family of languages (because I begin to think that may be HTML 4 may be is more related to XHTML than to HTML 5, as thing develops) are extensible because they build on each others. It is really beyond me why why a more precisely defined language - implementation wise - has to cut off all extensibility. But perhaps it really is no wonder? So it does matter how we see HTML 5 vis-a-vis HTML 4. It matters for the design. -- leif halvard silli
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