RE: HTML Ruby extensions

>From Plan 2014, 
>http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan.html

>I get the idea that HTML 5.0 is to finalized without adding new features, to have finally something delivered as a REC, and enhancements will be considered when defining 5.1.

I believe you may have missed the following part of "plan 2014" that describes how extensions specs can be folded into HTML5.0:

"Additionally, we will identify a date approximately three months before the completion of CR (and therefore in 2014 Q2) which will be the final date upon which extension specifications that obtain consensus and meet the CR exit criteria can be identified for folding into the core HTML specification."

We have already done this for the <main> element spec.  See the emails at [1-2].

/paulc
HTML WG co-chair

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2013Apr/0047.html 
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2013Jan/0205.html 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jukka K. Korpela [mailto:jukka.k.korpela@kolumbus.fi] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 5:39 AM
To: public-html@w3.org
Subject: Re: HTML Ruby extensions

2013-10-08 12:23, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On 08/10/2013 05:13 , Glenn Adams wrote:
>> Do you plan to apply these changes to 5.0?
>
> See:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org 
>> <mailto:robin@w3.org>> wrote:
>>     The goal for this extension specification is to be reviewed on its
>>     own, but to eventually become integrated into the HTML
>>     specification. How much of it gets integrated and when largely
>>     depends on implementations. If implementations support this inside
>>     of the CR period, then all of it will simply be folded into HTML. If
>>     however the newer features are not yet supported well enough, a
>>     "viable subset" will get folded in. That viable subset will be
>>     primarily comprised of existing elements as processed by the new
>>     algorithm.
>
> So at the very least part of it will make it into 5.0 yes.
>

 From Plan 2014,
http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan.html

I get the idea that HTML 5.0 is to finalized without adding new features, to have finally something delivered as a REC, and enhancements will be considered when defining 5.1.

But maybe I'm reading too much between the lines.

To me, Ruby looks like a rather specialized topic, which is essential in some contexts, irrelevant in most, and quite difficult to understand. So it very much sounds like something that could be defined in HTML 5.0 just in a relatively simple form, as it currently is, and a separate extension should be defined.

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