Re: [whatwg] Tool Implementor Audience
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Smylers wrote: One of the audiences for HTML is stated as implementors of tools that are intended to conform to this specification: http://www.whatwg.org/html5#audience That seems circular, verging on tautologous: a tool author wondering whether this spec is relevant to her (and therefore whether her tool should aim to conform with it) isn't any better informed having read the above. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
[whatwg] Tool Implementor Audience
One of the audiences for HTML is stated as implementors of tools that are intended to conform to this specification: http://www.whatwg.org/html5#audience That seems circular, verging on tautologous: a tool author wondering whether this spec is relevant to her (and therefore whether her tool should aim to conform with it) isn't any better informed having read the above. And conversely, an author of a lousy tool (which attempts to parse webpages but does so in a way not compatible with how browsers do) might have this spec pointed out to him. But he can claim it doesn't apply to him, since he's never intended his tool to conform to it. Could we make it something like implementors of tools that emit HTML or parse Web content? Smylers
