Re: CR exit criteria and features at risk for HTML5 from Aryeh Gregor on 2012-08-17 (public-html@w3.org from August 2012)

From: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:35:12 +0300
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAKA+Ax=9jeZd5sMk9D-gSg3TSZtkHwKxEJmboQ1xp9EcnrjdaA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> Because if it's not planned to be released to users then the bar for how
> much content it can break is much higher, not least because it hasn't gotten
> as much user testing.
>
> And if implementing the spec requires breaking content that user-facing
> implementations are unwilling to break, then that's somewhat bad.

I agree that the spec can't be deemed really stable until there's
enough web content out there that browsers can't change significantly.
 I don't think REC should be contingent on the spec being really
stable.

Received on Friday, 17 August 2012 13:36:25 UTC