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Boris Zbarsky  
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 More options Feb 19 2009, 9:10 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.platform
From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:10:52 -0500
Local: Thurs, Feb 19 2009 9:10 am
Subject: Re: An alternate take on HTML5

Henri Sivonen wrote:
> But the CSS WG is free to change only those aspects of CSS3 that
> implementations have not yet converged on.

Since they're implementing with vendor prefixes, this might well not be
the case, actually...  until CR, of course.

> It seems to me that if the CSS WG were to change a
> part of CSS that has been interoperably implemented, it would be going
> astray.

That depends on how that part interacted with other parts, in my opinion.

> Splitting stuff out of HTML5 in order to make it get to REC fast would
> mean that the part that got to REC would already be obsolete in the
> sense that it wouldn't accurately capture the new action in the
> development of the platform even if it were accurate for the older parts.

This might not inherently be a problem.

> If the purpose is to communicate to authors, why does the document at
> http://people.mozilla.com/~sayrer/2009/02/15/html5.html
> include the HTML5 parsing algorithm? Shouldn't authors be shown
> something like the "Writing" section instead?

Communicating to UA authors is not a bad thing either.  It's good to
know when the spec editor feels they're done with gratuitous changes and
are waiting on impl feedback.  Going to CR announces this, but since
HTML5 isn't planning to do this for a while...

-Boris


 
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