Re: [whatwg] Dom as Audience Prereq

2009-07-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Smylers wrote: The audience section states familiarity with Dom Core and Dom Events as prereqs for reading the HTML 5 spec: http://www.whatwg.org/html5#audience As somebody without this Dom background there are certainly many parts of the spec which I've found

Re: [whatwg] Dom as Audience Prereq

2009-06-19 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Unlike in previous versions, the DOM is the skeleton and the underlying model of the specification. Even if there are sections that do not reference the DOM explicitly, a reader that tries to apply them to anything will not probably be able to draw the right conclusions without a basic knowledge

Re: [whatwg] Dom as Audience Prereq

2009-06-19 Thread Smylers
Kristof Zelechovski writes: Unlike in previous versions, the DOM is the skeleton and the underlying model of the specification. Yup. But I don't think any more Dom knowledge is needed to read this version. Even if there are sections that do not reference the DOM explicitly, a reader that

[whatwg] Dom as Audience Prereq

2009-06-18 Thread Smylers
The audience section states familiarity with Dom Core and Dom Events as prereqs for reading the HTML 5 spec: http://www.whatwg.org/html5#audience As somebody without this Dom background there are certainly many parts of the spec which I've found both understandable and useful (to a web