- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:14:54 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Mark Birbeck wrote: > > HTML5 is about a monolithic spec, individually authored, making a > *virtue* out of having no extension points HTML5 now consists of at least eight specs: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/ http://dev.w3.org/html5/workers/ http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/ http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/ http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api/ http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-abarth-mime-sniff-00.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-abarth-origin-00.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol-01.txt ...with six credited authors and over 260 acknowledged contributors, which has at least seven different extensions mechanisms: * class="" to extend elements * data-*="" for script annotations * <meta name="" content=""> for document-level name/value pairs * rel="" for extending link semantics * <script type=""> for embedding data blobs * <embed> for adding new native-code-implemented features * JS prototyping for extending the APIs -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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