- From: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:32:49 +0100
- To: Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>
- Cc: Lars Erik Bolstad <lbolstad@opera.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Richard Barnes<rbarnes@bbn.com> wrote: > It seems like there's a subtext here that "We have UAs that implement > version $X of the spec, therefore version $X must be the final spec," even > though there are still open issues with version $X. While it's great that > there are implementations, it's not so nice when implementations force > things in or out of a consensus document. > I tend to have a more pragmatic view: I don't see what purpose does it serve to rename / move those attributes at this point. The major browsers already implement the old attributes so we're creating a larger problem for developers than the one we'd solve if we changed the spec now. > > The alternative, of course, is to explicitly agree that V1 is just going to > be a documentation of what implementations are doing now, and reserve "what > we really have consensus on" for V2. > Sounds reasonable to me. Nobody claims we have reached perfection, so V2 is very much needed. Andrei
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