Comment by carapace
3 years ago
> it includes dupes, drafts, and unrelated specs.
Even if it's overblown by, say, three times, that's still over thirty million words.
3 years ago
> it includes dupes, drafts, and unrelated specs.
Even if it's overblown by, say, three times, that's still over thirty million words.
Note that a large effort has been made to make specs more precise, to be easier to implement in an interoperable way.
That contributes to "word bloat", but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Picking the right metrics is not always that easy!
> Note that a large effort has been made to make specs more precise, to be easier to implement in an interoperable way
This is true for HTML5 which defined full browser behaviour, including things like improperly closed and improperly nested tags.
Many, many other specs? Not so much. Especially the crap that Chrome has been pumping out the past several years.