[whatwg] Mining for information in the spec (new organization ideas?)

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Nov 19 13:42:40 PST 2004


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Brian Wilson wrote:
> 
> I was looking at some boundary conditions for min and max attributes 
> just now in the spec, and ended up having to ask Ian for the answer. 
> Although the answer was right there in the spec, I find myself doing 
> this more than I'd like (and probably more than Ian would like as well 
> 8-D) [...]
>
> This may have been an extreme example (or maybe I am just running in to 
> the extreme examples lately), but with the spec being as verbose as it 
> is, and that same spec going into as much boundary condition handling as 
> it does - could there be a better way to organize this boundary handling 
> information such that it is easier to cross-reference?

I did some minor rearranging but I really couldn't see what else to do. If 
you have any more concrete suggestions let me know. :-)

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