On 3 June 2011 18:20, Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm) <jo...@pfenniger.name> wrote: > Relatedly, what struck me while following the HTML5 spec development > is how they decided to specify existing browser behavior and add more > to the plate. Instead, they could have tried to decompose existing > elements to a smaller subset that would be more easily documented.
It's worth remembering that this was intentional with HTML5: it was a rebellion against the changes of XHTML by those who wanted backwards compatibility which, in the context of the web, is hard to deny. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
