Re: updated editor's draft of the Geolocation API specification

On Jun 4, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Doug Turner wrote:

>
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Max Froumentin wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrei,
>>
>> On 4. juni. 2009, at 12.49, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>> I've just updated the editor drafts of the Geolocation API spec:
>>
>> I notice that RFC2119 is not in the bibliography, even though  
>> there's a link to it in the spec.
>>
>>> I'd like to take the opportunity to remind you to consider the
>>> question in the following email:
>>>
>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2009Jun/0000.html
>>>
>>> and express your opinion. I would like to close this issue asap and
>>> move the spec to the next stage. We are already behind schedule.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I am in also favour of not including the  
>> additional sentence. For the reasons you mention, but also because  
>> prose of the form "this specification doesn't mandate a way to...  
>> however one way might be...", although not strictly contradictory,  
>> very often leads to confusion. Secondly, the particular time- 
>> scoping solution mentioned suggests awkward user interaction, and  
>> might influence implementers the wrong way.
>
> +1  drop this from the spec.

+1 to drop this from the spec.
-- Greg

Received on Thursday, 4 June 2009 15:52:50 UTC