- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:28:03 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- cc: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 6/24/14, 1:05 PM, Glenn Adams wrote: > > Such device certification regimes cannot work unless the referenced > > specifications are locked down and clearly implementable. > > I see. > > So this is not about actual spec implementations or spec authors but > effectively about a QA cycle that compares the implementations to the > specs, and which needs to know which spec to compare the implementations > to. Compraing implementations to anything but the very latest draft is not only a waste of time, it's actively harmful to interoperability. At no point should any implementor even remotely consider making a change from implementing what is currently specified to what was previously specified, that would literally be going backwards. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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