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Adding Syntax section #24

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cshaa opened this issue Aug 13, 2013 · 5 comments
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Adding Syntax section #24

cshaa opened this issue Aug 13, 2013 · 5 comments

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@cshaa
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cshaa commented Aug 13, 2013

Here, in the HTML6 documentation, there is nearly no desc. of the syntax - only a reference to HTML5 and the Section 4 - Tag types. But full documentation has to include it.
Here's a list of syntax articles:

  • what is a tag, what are attributes
    • tag in layman's terms
    • tag types [PARTIALLY]
    • attributes in layman's terms
    • normative description of tag
    • normative description of attributes
    • regular expersion
  • namespaces (+how to include)
  • how to parse wrong code

At this point we don't know anything about namespaces. Will there be something like xmlns? Or will they be included in doctype like this: <!DOCTYPE html,form>? And what languages to use to define new namespaces?
@OscarGodson
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Only the two you mentioned, and yes, we for sure should have a syntax. section.

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And, I don't think we need to include it in the DOCTYPE. The point of having namespaces is that you, as a developer, don't have to worry about future namespaces. Is there a benefit you see in having them manually listed out?

@philandy
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Could we make the DOCTYPE an attribute of the html tag?

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cshaa commented Aug 22, 2013

@OscarGodson Listing namespaces is just a XML habit. It's useful for browser - to know what API to load. Eg <!DOCTYPE html,svg> would mean load "html" and "svg" APIs. If you wouldn't list it, browser would treat svg tags as ordinary semantic tags and therefore would not render the picture.
@philandy Yep, thats also a solution.

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@m93a, Oscar's HTML6 is not XHTML; we should be able to assume default behavior for certain tags beyond the namespaces.

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