- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:59:07 +0000
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
- Cc: "Carr, Wayne" <wayne.carr@intel.com>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Jace Voracek <jacevoracek@me.com>, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote: >> Personally, I'd prefer W3C rescind outdated recommendations, but >> linking to more up-to-date specifications is a good substitute. > > First, it will be maintenance nightmare. How so? > Second who is going to decide Er … the WG responsible for maintaining the specs (that's us). > which specification and which version should contain link to newer one? I'd suggest all "latest version" specifications should contain a link to the HTML5 work. > Should HTML4 spec contain link to HTML5 which is far from being finished? HTML4 contained a link to XHTML which, at time of publication, was not a Recommendation (it was in CR), so there is precendent. More importantly, the HTML5 work is what is relevant to implementors. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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