- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:55:24 -0700
Section 1.4 currently states: Work on HTML 5 originally started in late 2003, as a proof of concept to show that it was possible to extend HTML 4's forms to provide many of the features that XForms 1.0 introduced, without requiring browsers to implement rendering engines that were incompatible with existing HTML Web pages. At this early stage, while the draft was already publicly available, and input was already being solicited from all sources, the specification was only under Opera Software's copyright. In early 2004, some of the principles that underlie this effort, as well as an early draft proposal covering just forms-related features, were presented to the W3C jointly by Mozilla and Opera at a workshop discussing the future of Web Applications on the Web. The proposal was rejected on the grounds that the proposal conflicted with the previously chosen direction for the Web's evolution. Active voice would be more forceful and possibly more accurate here. For example, ???? started work on HTML 5 in late 2003, as a proof of concept to show that it was possible to extend HTML 4's forms to provide many of the features that XForms 1.0 introduced, without requiring browsers to implement rendering engines that were incompatible with existing HTML Web pages. At this early stage, while the draft was already publicly available, and input was already being solicited from all sources, the specification was only under Opera Software's copyright. In early 2004, Mozilla and Opera jointly presented some of the principles that underlie this effort, as well as an early draft proposal covering just forms-related features, to the W3C at a workshop discussing the future of Web Applications on the Web. The W3C rejected the proposal on the grounds that it conflicted with the previously chosen direction for the Web's evolution. (I'm not sure who to fill in as the subject of the first sentence.) -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at ibiblio.org
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