Re: [XBL] - please remove reference to HTML5

On 11/01/2007, at 11:53 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Dean Jackson wrote:
>>
>> This comment comes from the W3C Staff.
>>
>> Please remove the references to the HTML5 specification, at least  
>> in the
>> version published by the W3C. To be clear, this is not a negative
>> comment on HTML5 -- the reference is ok, but a W3C specification  
>> should
>> not rely on normative behaviour described in an unstable  
>> specification.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>>> Security contexts are (or will be) described in the HTML5  
>>> specification.
>> [HTML5]
>>
>> Hopefully new work on HTML at the W3C can allow such a reference  
>> in the
>> near future.
>
> I have changed the reference to be an informative reference. You are
> absolutely correct that it is inapproriate for the specification to
> normatively refer to incomplete specifications.

Thanks. This obviously satisfies my request and I hope we can
soon refer to the material normatively.

Dean