- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:07:12 -0600
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 15:29 -0700, Larry Masinter wrote:
> (resent to public tag) with regard to ACTION-283 / ISSUE-41
>
> In the meanwhile, here is the Editor’s Draft
>
> http://larry.masinter.net/tag-versioning.html
I'm having a hard time getting engaged in this document; it
uses an editorial style that I find off-putting; it
starts with "This document...", which is too self-conscious
for my tastes.
It also presents a list of terms and definitions without
motivating the complexity.
At the risk of beating a dead horse, if we're to work on
versioning, I strongly suggest we approach it as a collection
of patterns, i.e. known problems and solutions
e.g.
- when HTML was started, we didn't know which tags we'd ultimately need
- therefore: ignore unknown tags
- but: it doesn't always work; see forms, tables
(perhaps another pattern is the <noscript> alternative pattern)
- likewise in HTTP
- but there the solution is to ignore not just the header name
but the content of the header too
- the XSLT versioning strategy
- the COM uuid strategy (mostly for contrast with web techniques)
oops... time for the telcon...
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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