On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com> wrote:
> [If this has been discussed before, feel free to just point me there] > > I frequently see the comment on this list and in other forums that > something is "too late" for HTML5, and therefore discussion should be > deferred. > > I would like to propose that we get rid of the concepts of "versions" > altogether from HTML. In reality, nobody supports all of HTML5. Each > vendor supports a slightly different subset of the spec, along with > some features that are outside the spec. > > This seems OK to me. Instead of insisting that a particular version of > HTML is a monolithic unit that must be implemented in its entirety, we > could have each feature (or logical group of features) spun off into > its own small spec. We're already doing this a bit with things like > Web Workers, but I don't see why we don't just do it for everything. > > Just as they do now, vendors would decide at the end of the day which > features they would implement and which they would not. But we should > never have to say that "the spec is too big". If somebody is > interested in exploring an idea, they should be able to just start > doing that. > > - a > If we never cut things off then the spec will really never be finished before 2020. I agree that somethings can be reopened but there are also some which have been resolved and any new discussions are coming a year++ later. -- - Adam Shannon ( http://ashannon.us )