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> I also found out today that the HTML Living Standard is very much a living standard - the whatwg/html repo has had 12,318 commits, the most recent of which wa

by xg15 2y ago

> I also found out today that the HTML Living Standard is very much a living standard - the whatwg/html repo has had 12,318 commits, the most recent of which was less than 24 hours ago. I understand their mission of capturing the messy real-world usages of web technologies and distilling them into a standard, paving the cowpaths etc etc. But I don't see how anything can be called a standard that updates daily.

ceejayoz 2y ago
Look at the actual commit. https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/85effead0a5df3742ebe29387a9c140e0ff108d1 https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/85effead0a5df3742ebe29... A document of this size will have typos, require clarification, get reorganized. It didn’t fundamentally change here.
Devasta 2y ago
In the year 2525, if man is still alive, he may find he has a web page from an unknown time period. To read it, all he'll need to do is reimplement all standards for the previous 500 years. Version numbers wouldn't make this easier at all, somehow.
- xg15 2y ago
  It will still be served on IPv4 tho.
  - Devasta 2y ago
    And after all their efforts to get the unknown markup into an document form, they'll convert it's contents into the dominant information format of the 26th century: PDF.