Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
I find Roy's proposed title misleading as to the contents of the spec,
as well as objectionable on the grounds that it tries to disparage the
spec.
For example, if someone suggested they would no longer object
to the spec if it were titled "HTML5: A Filthy Pack of Lies", then of
course we should decline and take that suggestion as actually a
backhanded way of criticizing the body of the spec. Similarly for
"HTML5: A Spec for Only a Few Situations But Not Really the Real Spec".
While "Uniform Browser Behavior for the Web" is not quite in that
category, it is suggested with the intent of denying that the spec is a
proper spec for HTML version 5.
Please refrain from inferring less-than-honorable intents and proposing
strawman.
The front matter of the document, while overwhelmingly editorial, does
serve an important function. It defines the goals of the document.
Much of Ian's criticism of "HTML 5: The Markup Language" either took the
form of questioning the goals of that document, or identifying ways in
which the document itself did not meet its stated goals.
At the present time, the current draft explicitly contradicts in a
number of important ways a number of other standards, standards by the
W3C and other bodies.
One way to address this is to remove the contradictions.
Another way to address this is to describe this document in terms that
nobody can question. "Unform Browser Behavior" is one such way.
Perhaps there are better ways of addressing this, but I doubt there are
any that are more concise.
- Sam Ruby
