Re: ACTION-95, ISSUE-65: Plan to publish a new WD of HTML-5

James Graham wrote:
 >
 > [...] I guess a more accurate statement rephrasing of Hixie's
 > statement would be "The overwhelming majority of Web designers and
 > Webmasters aren't asking for a normative specification with lines
 > like:[...]".

"aren't asking" is a truism, because "[t]he overwhelming
majority of Web designers and Webmaster" are not members
of the WG, and therefore are not in a position to ask.
What matters, however, is not whether they /are/ asking,
but whether they /would/ ask, given the opportunity.
I suspect that many, perhaps even most, would : why would
a professional webmaster /not/ care enough to want precise,
definitive, documentation ?

Philip TAYLOR

Received on Wednesday, 28 January 2009 10:19:50 UTC