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Just having a look at the spec: "HTML 5: The Markup Language" that Mike Smith is/was working on. I'm not sure if this project has been put to the side or superseded by something else or whether it is still being actively developed. If this is going to be used by the HTML WG can we please have the title changed to something else as the real "HTML 5: The Markup Language" is actually in the main spec that's known as "HTML5", the spec that is being developed by both the W3C and the WHATWG. This "the markup spec" certainly can not be called "HTML 5: The Markup Language" anyway as HTML5 is interdependently linked to XHTML5 and DOM5 (meaning you can't separate HTML5 from XHTML5 or DOM5). Seems confusing to have two specs attempting to do the same thing, I'm not sure what the purpose is of "the markup spec", perhaps it's aimed at authors, nonetheless, it really needs to be called something else so there's no confusion between it and the real markup language(s) HTML5, XHTML5 that are within the main spec. Thanks Dean
*** Bug 8946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Simon's comment from bug 8946: "H:TML" or "HTML5: The Markup Language" doesn't say much about what the document is about. I think it would be better if it was "HTML5 Document Conformance Reference" or something.
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changed title to "HTML: The Markup Language Reference"
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sorry, here's the response I intended to send (Change Description was wrong) EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: concurred with commenter Rationale: I changed my mind.