[whatwg] One document or two?

Various people have expressed opinions in favour of either one spec  
to rule them all, or two specs for different audiences. Is not the  
simplest solution to have two views upon the same spec?

HTML 5, Full Version (User Agent Edition)
"<foo> is deprecated and should not be used, but you have to support  
it anyway."

HTML 5, Abridged Version (Web Author Edition)
"<foo> is deprecated and should not be used."


You can even have them at the same URL, with a pair of radio buttons  
to toggle between them (which just toggles display: none on a class  
to hide the unnecessary info:
"&lt;foo> is deprecated and should not be used<span class="full">,  
but you have to support it anyway</span>.")

Since I anticipate 99% or more of people who will read the document  
will be HTML authors finding out about the new spec, Abridged should  
probably be the default view.

- Nicholas.
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