- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 19:34:03 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>, public-html@w3.org
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > > > We could have had a principle that said "Go critically through all the > > features of HTML 4 and see if there is much dead meat". But we do not > > have this. (And I suppose that one of the reason we do not have it is > > because such a principle would have defeated the "from scratch" > > principle.) > > I agree, we don't have such a principle. But it does seem like a good > idea to any time you write a spec, go through all the features of that > spec and make sure that it still makes sense to keep them in the spec. > No matter if the reason they were in the spec in the first place is > because they came from a previous version of the spec or because it's a > newly added feature. Indeed; the design principle wouldn't be "Go critically through all the features of HTML 4 and see if there is much dead meat", but "Go critically through all the features of HTML *5* and see if there is much dead meat", which I actually do regularly. This is mentioned in the FAQ: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_removing_bad_ideas_from_the_spec.3F -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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