- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 12:54:56 +0200
Nicholas Shanks wrote: > 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: > "<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. I think this is definitely the right thing to do. One more thing: although playing with client-side toggles and CSS may be interesting, I think the deliverables should clearly be two different documents, with different names at different URLs. Best regards, Julian
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