[whatwg] Spec formats

Michael A. Puls II shadow2531 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 21 02:01:01 PDT 2010


On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:23:40 -0300, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>  
wrote:

>
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Perry Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm somewhat frustrated right now.  I hope this email is not too  
>> caustic.
>>
>> The page at http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ causes  
>> my Firefox to freeze for a minute or more.  Eventually it recovers and  
>> it has all the pretty do-dads and things but it sure is painful to  
>> wait.  And, this may be a Firefox problem but every time I hit a link,  
>> it freezes again as it recomputes (I guess) all the pretty do-dads and  
>> things.  The pretty do-dads and things just are not worth it to me.   
>> Maybe there is something I can turn off but not until after the first  
>> wait period.
>
> You may find that the W3C Editor's Draft is more friendly to your  
> browser: <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html>. However, it does  
> not include all the same content as the WHATWG copy.

Or, <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/?slow-browser>  
might be sufficient.

-- 
Michael



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