- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:10:12 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Cc: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>, David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>, www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Tina Holmboe wrote: > > It'd be better if you wrote distinct, clean, specifications which > separated one thing from another. Oh, I don't know. I've always thought indistinct, dirty, mashed-together specifications would be better. Seriously though. This kind of feedback simply isn't constructive. It's like telling a browser vendor that they should make their browser faster, more secure, and more standards compliant. Or telling a carpenter that they should make their buildings stronger, cleaner, and more fire-resistant. More concrete suggestions would be far more helpful. > This has been suggested to you several times, and there has not so far > been given any good reason why it shouldn't be done. There is a simple reason -- it's less work for me to write one spec than to write two specs. The Workers part of HTML5 is an example of this -- I put it in a separate document instead of in the HTML5 document, and this has caused be disproportionally more work than if I'd put it in the same document. Thus, I need editors if we are to split HTML5 up. If anyone would like to actually help with doing this, instead of insulting me and my work, then please do let me know. There is a list of sections I would like to extract from HTML5, the only reason they haven't been extracted is lack of actual editors willing to the do work: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/0127.html Are you volunteering? If not, I respectfully would like to ask you to stop insulting me. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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