Re: Bringing other Web Components specs into HTML

On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Dirk Schulze wrote:
> 
> On Jun 14, 2013, at 6:41 AM, "Robin Berjon" <robin@w3.org> wrote:
> > 
> > now that <template> is in HTML, I was wondering if some of the other 
> > specs needed the same treatment.
>
> Some of the specs can be relevant for other specifications as well. 
> Unless you don't want to integrate the whole web stack (SVG, MathML, 
> ...) into the HTML spec, some things should be separated from HTML.

I think the main deciding factor should be who is going to maintain the 
text once in the future. With <template>, presumably that's now us (HTML 
spec editors). For most Web component stuff, I assume it's still Dimitri 
and company. Thus they should probably stay in separate specs.

If it wasn't for that, I would indeed be arguing for merging the entire 
Web stack into a single document (called "The Web"). That's certainly how 
it's implemented, and it would fix a lot of problems with have with things 
falling between the cracks. (See, e.g., how much of an improvement we made 
to that kind of thing when we merged DOM HTML and HTML.)

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