From: Oren Ben-K. <or...@be...> - 2004-12-29 21:10:35
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On Wednesday 29 December 2004 20:00, Clark C. Evans wrote: > Oren has spent a huge amount of time incorporating the slurry of > changes [1] we agreed upon in September. This is our very first > 1.1 working draft, and we will move it to a release candidate after > we have two or more implementations. The spec is rather large (~80 pages), what with the introduction chapter, all the examples, and not trying to conserve space. I don't see a good way to split it (other than to chapters, which we already did), and I don't see a good way of squeezing it without using the kind of terse telegraphic spec-speak which many people find unreadable. Because this spec contains tons of changes, it also contains tons of potential for typos, inconsistencies, unclear wordings, bad examples, uncovered edge cases and other forms of the plague. I'm also not 100% certain that the HTML tricks I did in the examples work properly in all browsers. It is heavily cross-indexed - which may be useful or annoying... and so on. So please - give it a look, and don't be shy of posting any problems you find or ideas for improvement. Have fun, Oren Ben-Kiki |