On 20.7.2012 14:38, Steve Faulkner wrote:
Hi Hixie,
I believe you have made some spurious claims, one of them being;
"The WHATWG effort is focused on developing the
canonical description of HTML and related technologies"
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The claim that HTML the living standard is canonical appears to imply that
the requirements and advice contained within HTML the living standard is
more correct than what is in the HTML5 specification
................
In respect to those author related requirements mentioned above the HTML5
specification can currently claim to be contain a more accurate set of
requirements and advice, that takes into account current implementation
realities, thus providing author with more practical advice and thus end
users with a better experience.
Canonical means neither "correct" nor "accurate", those words have no
meaning in this case, you cannot apply them on set of rules (you first
have to have set of rules, to claim, whether something is accurate or
correct within the boundaries of those rules), canonical means, that
those set of rules are valid, that those rules apply.
The question is, who will follow those set of rules. Both HTML5 and HTML
TLS can claim to be canonical, both can be valid for different groups.
Let's just hope all major vendors will chose the same...
Brona
