- From: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 11:12:07 -0800
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
> In the W3C, there is going to be a standard called "HTML5" and > presumably some standard later on called "HTML6", so these will indeed > be two distinct concepts. The W3C Process forces us to have versions > of the specs themselves, even though the WG decided that versions > won't be reflected anywhere in the markup. True. > So we need some way to > distinguish between conformance to the HTML5 specification, which will > be frozen and obsolescent pretty soon, and conformance to the HTML6 > specification (or 5.1 or whatever we decide to call it), which will be > the correct one to refer to once HTML5 is frozen. Certainly conformance checkers could provide a method to check for conformance to a specific revision of the HTML specification. So when you say "we need some way to distinguish", what comes to mind is conformance checking. But I don't think we need to change anything in the HTML5 spec in order to enable conformance checkers to provide such a feature. Ted
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