HTML Modularisation

Cunningham's Law

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

Magic & Innovation

• Developers build most of the Web's Magic
• Extensible Web Manifesto (http://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/)
• Greater inclusiveness
• Greater participation

Tooling & Agility

The way people work has evolved over time.

• XXth century: CVS + patches over email
• 2000: SVN + heavyweight branches
• Today: git + pull requests

Software Development

A lot of experience from software development can inspire us.

• Supports both regular releases and bleeding edge version
• Good processes to support contribution from broad base
• Familiar to a potentially huge contributors' base

The Unix Philosophy

This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together.

Modularisation

• It is hard
• It is work
• It is useful and powerful
• There are solutions to handle it

We are not thinking about the same thing as XHTML Modularisation was.