[html5] Introduction and the Web Platform Forum

[Vahagn Hayrapetyan]

Hi Simon,-

thanks for the reply; I was really glad to hear your thoughts.

Regarding the "HTML 5 forum" Google search: it certainly is at the top of
the results list now, however I am not sure if this was the case about one
month ago, at the time when I did my original research. I don't think I went
past page 2 of the search results back then. In short, I just don't
recollect stumbling upon it at that time - but it's good to see it at the
current position!

it seems to have a slightly different focus than the WHATWG forums.
> Redundancy isn't a bad thing here. :-)
>

Exactly, the focus of Web Platform Forum is more about the various aspects
of web as a rich platform (which means HTML5 but also things like video,
semantic standards, etc). It should not (and ultimately, cannot) replace the
in-depth discussions about HTML5, CSS3, etc at spec level :-)

The WHATWG forum certainly looks usable, I can see it has nice code
highlighting, something which is at this point is missing from Web Platform
Forum.

I guess I'll look forward to all the interesting discussion then. Let's see
if one more forum will result in more discussion :-)

Cheers,
Vahagn


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Simon Pieters <zcorpan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:11:36 +0100, Vahagn Hayrapetyan <vahagnh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi,-
>>
>> my name's Vahagn, I'm a developer (Ruby, Rails, Web Standards) new to this
>> forum. Last couple of weeks I have been busy with putting together a forum
>> where developers could discuss HTML5, CSS3, and the like.
>>
>
> Cool!
>
>
>
>  This was before I
>> learned about the existence of this list.
>>
>> I'd really like to receive some feedback on the project. On one hand, it
>> was
>> never an intention of mine to sabotage the existing discussions (like the
>> ones happening on this list).
>>
>
> There's isn't too much discussion on this list anyway. :-)
>
>
>
>  On the other hand, when I searched for "HTML5
>> forum" on Google, nothing usable came up.
>>
>
> I guess http://forums.whatwg.org/ was in the result? I've changed the
> forum descriptions to hopefully be a bit friendlier. Let me know if there's
> something I can do to make it more usable.
>
>
>
>  So I thought why not go ahead and
>> create one. The sooner the developers start talking about this brave new
>> world, the better.
>>
>> So what do you think - is the forum a good idea or is it redundant?
>>
>
> I think it's a good idea and it seems to have a slightly different focus
> than the WHATWG forums. Redundancy isn't a bad thing here. :-)
>
>
>
>  Here's
>> the link:
>> http://webplatformforum.heroku.com/
>>
>> and the motivation behind:
>> http://webplatformforum.heroku.com/blog
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Vahagn
>>
>
>
> --
> Simon Pieters
>
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