- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:42:22 +0200
- To: karl@w3.org
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 05:05:46AM -0000, karl@w3.org wrote: > This is a QA Review comment for "CSS3 Advanced Layout Module" > http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-layout-20051215/ > About http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-layout-20051215/#dependencies > > This "Dependencies on other modules" section is cool. It gives an insight on what the developers should read or not to implement things. It will be better in the sentence: > > "This CSS3 module depends on the following other CSS3 modules:"" > > to add "normatively". "Depends on" already implies "normatively," in my mind, but I have no objection to add the word. > Also, it might be informative to link to a document showing all > dependencies, a graph, drawing. for CSS 3 Framework. Yes, that would indeed be useful, but I think two things keep us from creating it: 1) We could generate such a graph automatically, but the result would probably not be very useful, because the quality of the input varies so much: some drafts are quite stable, others have not been reviewed yet at all. The reliability of the graph would equal that of the least reliable of its inputs. 2) A hand-made graph can indicate the reliability of its parts, but keeping the graph up to date means work, and we already have a shortage of time and people, so I'm afraid it won't happen any time soon. We have the same problem with our catalogue of properties. We would like to have a complete catalogue of all properties, standard and proposed, including those of XSL and SVG. We make such a catalogue every once in a while, but it gets out of date so quickly, that it is not worth publishing (indeed harmful), until we can guarantee its maintenance. Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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