- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:31:24 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Dean Jackson wrote: > > > > Ok. Could you provide us with a list of features you believe need use > > cases listed? That would be really helpful in creating such a > > document. > > All of them. That's never going to happen, just like the XHTML working group has never published a document with use cases for all their features. Ditto the SVG group, the CSS group, and so forth. Most of the features have quite obvious use cases -- for example the use case for the first feature in the Web Apps draft -- <html> -- is having a predictable root element for the document or document fragment. I can maybe find the time to produce a document summarising the use cases for the less obvious features (probably by simply copying the text from e-mails in the archives of this mailing list, where the features mostly originated), but I don't want to waste time doing so for dozens of features where the use cases are obvious and nobody disagrees. > For example, I see many new HTML elements in (the strangely named) Web > Applications 1.0 for which I'd like to see the requirements. If only to > understand why you chose a different approach than the W3C HTML Working > Group (eg. maybe you are trying to solve a different use case and > therefore have a different requirement). The two different requirements are "backwards compatibility" and "well defined error handling / processing model". I expect every difference in the details of common features can be traced down to those two things. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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