Gervase Markham wrote:
Ian Hickson wrote:
Biting off more
than we can chew is a common mistake in Web specification development.
lynx -dump -nolist http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ |
wc --words
143147
lynx -dump -nolist http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/ |
wc --words
40523
lynx -dump -nolist
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/html40.txt | wc --words
104564
Joking aside, I would actually *expect* the HTML5 spec to be longer than
HTML4 because it actually goes into detail explaining how everything
should work in all cases, rather than just making hand-wave statements
and assuming everything will be perfect.
