Thanks Steve, I spoke to Mike regarding this earlier. The current plan is that he will get in touch with you to pull something together… longer term I plan to work on something with Mike, in person, in Tokyo when I visit in July.
Cheers, Ben On Tuesday, 22 February 2011 at 8:00 PM, Steve Faulkner wrote: > Hi ben, thanks for the quick response, > > you wrote: > "I believe the title of the document / specification to be the most > relevantly accurate title possible, irregardless of the inclusion of > microdata. Although I'd be open to hear any suggestions for something better?" > > a suggestion "HTML A technical specification for Web developers" > > Also can you provide an estimate of when the W3C spec-author-view will be > fixed? > > regards > stevef > > On 22 February 2011 08:22, Ben Schwarz <ben.schw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > > > I believe the title of the document / specification to be the most > > relevantly accurate title possible, irregardless of the inclusion of > > microdata. Although I'd be open to hear any suggestions for something > > better? > > > > As for the W3C spec-author-view—I see it to really be the same as the > > specification launched today. > > I understand the differences between the two, but they're one and the same > > in my opinion… (In the real world, people have a hard enough time working > > out who the WHATWG and W3C are) > > > > I'd hope to port the new work over to the spec-author-view, but I do wonder > > why the two need coexist, as the spec-author-view was a project that was > > created by Hixie, Mike Smith (as far as I know). The goals of that > > specification and mine are the same, I'd worked on both too… Personally, > > I'd like to hear feedback from both Hixie and Mike on this… > > > > Rather than _porting_ anything, I'd be more interested in writing a global > > W3C style guide & css package that could be included by all the willing > > specification authors, to tidy the typography and generally provide a solid > > pattern library for documentation. > > > > Thanks for your feedback, its always appreciated. I'm sure that this > > project is only really just beginning :) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ben > > > > -- > > On Tuesday, 22 February 2011 at 7:03 PM, Steve Faulkner wrote: > > > Hi ben, great work on the developer document! > > > > > > I am a little confused though, the document is not a version of the HTML5 > > > specification (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/spec.html) it is a version of > > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ > > > So it should not claim to be "HTML5 A technical specification for Web > > > developers" It includes things such as microdata that are not in HTML5. > > > > > > On a related subject, the HTML5 Edition for Web Authors > > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-author-view/ still has the color contrast > > > issues that were present months ago. At the time i provided a modded > > > style sheet which removed the issues. As I also suggested before, if you > > > don't have the time or inclination to update HTML5 Edition for Web > > > Authors I would be happy to take over. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
