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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target
On Monday, August 16, 2010 10:25:24 am rob.cavicchio@emc.com wrote: > The HTML5 specification isn't scheduled to become a recommendation until > 2022. That's something of a red herring. By W3C rules it can't become a recommendation until at least 2 complete implementations exist in the wild. It's currently in the "come on, use this stuff so we can be sure about it!" phase. It's a big enough spec that it will take a while for 2 *complete* implementations to exist, but partial implementations exist now and do offer benefits. TR date and widespread adoption date and useful-for-some-things date are all very different things. > So HTML5 as a replacement for the current HTML output types certainly does > not appear to be a viable option for quite some time to come. But assuming > no major upsets, it *will* come. The only question is when it will become > real enough that it makes sense to start doing significant work on it. I'm > not sure we've reached that point yet. That would be the question, yes. But if someone is willing to write it, and at least a few people want to use it, would there be a harm in offering it as an option? --Larry Garfield
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