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 author). There may be parts which do require Dom knowledge, but as written it sounds like a prereq for understanding any part of the spec, and as such may unnecessarily put people off. Smylers
