- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 23:53:07 -0700
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no> wrote: > Jonas Sicking On 09-05-26 01.03: >> 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) HTML 4 is definitely more related to XHTML1.0 than HTML5. This is because XHTML1.0 is the same language as HTML4, just with a different serialization. > 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. I don't think that's the case. It's just that the extensibility that existed before isn't considered very good. > So it does matter how we see HTML 5 vis-a-vis HTML 4. It matters for the > design. I don't see how any of what you say above is affected by if HTML 5 started "from scratch" or started from HTML4. / Jonas
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