- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:21:15 +0300
- To: WHATWG List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
I found out about http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166 through Lachlan Hunt's post to www-html. I notice that the announcement doesn't say anything about the relationship of the new HTML WG to the WHAT WG. It mentions WHAT WG, but it doesn't mention Web Applications 1.0 or HTML5 at all. In political announcements, the omissions are interesting. Moreover, it says "The plan is, informed by Webforms, to extend HTML forms." as opposed to "adopt WebForms 2.0" or something like that. Will the new HTML WG work on something other than what the WHAT WG has been working on being merely inspired by the work of the WHAT WG? That is, will the new HTML WG produce something that is not HTML5 but competes with it? Or will the WHAT WG activities continue with an endorsement from the W3C? Who is going to chair the new HTML WG and who is going to be the spec editor? Does the W3C now accept that HTML is not in practice an application of SGML? Does the W3C now subscribe to the view that the engines that matter the most are Gecko, Presto, Trident and WebKit and if they interoperate, their common behavior is what gets specified? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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