- From: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:58:41 +0000
Gervase Markham wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> Biting off more >> than we can chew is a common mistake in Web specification development. > > lynx -dump -nolist http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ | > wc --words > 143147 > > lynx -dump -nolist http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/ | > wc --words > 40523 > > lynx -dump -nolist > http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/html40.txt | wc --words > 104564 > Joking aside, I would actually *expect* the HTML5 spec to be longer than HTML4 because it actually goes into detail explaining how everything should work in all cases, rather than just making hand-wave statements and assuming everything will be perfect.
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