- From: Jens O. Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 21:17:25 -0500
- To: W3C Public HTML <public-html@w3.org>
There are many differences between the WHATWG and W3C HTML specs. I’d like to pick a simple example, the <cite> element [1,2], to wonder how useful maintaining two specs really is—and whether we on the W3C side take the appropriate steps to keep such differences to a minimum? To use the <cite> example, it doesn’t seem clear what the benefit is to remove important parts like “A person's name is not the title of a work” (I’ve just observed confusion on a WebAIM list [3]—the WHATWG spec was clear about this), and I’d claim it’s not a good use of time to change things like names (for example, Ian became Hillary). In whose interest is this? If there really is need for two specs, though I don’t want to open this can here, what does the group think about limiting changes and differences to what reflects insurmountable dispute between groups? Is that something to embed in the group charter? [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-cite-element [2] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/text-level-semantics.html#the-cite-element [3] http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_message?id=24285 -- Jens O. Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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