Re: Proposal for developing HTML 5 materials for Web *authors*

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:36:56 +0100, Dean Edridge <dean@55.co.nz> wrote:
> How do you propose that the W3C deal with the fact that there's about 10  
> different ways to create a HTML5 document.
> And more importantly what about the fact that not everyone in this group  
> can agree on what is "best practice".
> I mean, the group can't even agree on what a XHTML document is, and the  
> W3C wont clarify this either. This will have to be dealt with sooner or  
> later.

There are about ten different ways to create a document conforming to the  
XML syntax too. They are simply quite different. Restricting authors to  
use a subset of both doesn't seem particularly helpful especially given  
that in order to use existing content non-XML consuming software has to be  
used anyway.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Wednesday, 21 November 2007 15:53:21 UTC