On Feb 3, 2010, at 2:23 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2010, at 1:58 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Paul Cotton wrote: >> >>> 3. References >>> >>>> [HTML5] >>>> HTML5, I. Hickson. WHATWG, August 2009. >>> >>> The HTML5 reference in this document points to the WHAT WG version of >>> HTML5. This reference should be changed in the W3C FPWD to point to the >>> W3C version of HTML5. >> >> Why? > > It would be fine (as far as I'm concerned) to point to both the W3C and WHATWG versions, like XHR does: > http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#ref-html5 > > I think omitting mention of the W3C copy is a weird thing for a W3C spec to do. In this case, especially so since the WHATWG copy actually contains most of the text of the Microdata spec itself. By the way, I note that the HTML Canvas 2D Context draft also references only the WHATWG copy of the spec. For basically the same reasons, I'd like to request a dual reference. For those who did not follow the link above, XMLHttpRequest cites HTML5 like this: [HTML5] HTML 5 (work in progress), I. Hickson, D. Hyatt, editors. W3C, 2008. HTML 5 (work in progress), I. Hickson, editor. WHATWG, 2008. Where the phrase "HTML 5" links to the appropriate copy of the spec in each case. I don't think there is any valid reason for a less complete citation that only references the WHATWG copy. Regards, Maciej
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