Re: Firing events in the deviceorientation spec

On 08.03.2012 16:09, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Anne van Kesteren<annevk@opera.com>  wrote:
>> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:30:47 +0100, Andrei Popescu<andreip@google.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure, but we're running out of charter. I don't think we can renew the
>>> charter just because we have to tweak the IDL and references....I'm
>>> still not sure I understand what you're proposing we do.
>>
>>
>> You can, but apart from that:
>>
>> * Define how this feature works with the event loop
>> * Remove the init*Event() methods that have been obsoleted and must not be
>> introduced now
>>
>> Now ideally you also define the appropriate event constructors, because
>> implementors will want to implement them, and developers will want to use
>> them.
>>
>> I'm not sure what reference game you're playing, but there is nothing in the
>> W3C Process document that prevents a W3C Recommendation referencing drafts.
>
> We're not playing any games. What you're saying conflicts with the
> information here:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2011Feb/0022.html
>
>> And to define the actual feature a normative reference to HTML is required,
>> which in turn depends on DOM. So I'm not really sure why you keep playing
>> the ball back to me instead of explaining how any of that makes sense.
>
> Sorry, there's some confusion here: the assumption behind this thread
> was that there is something that prevents a W3C Recommendation from
> referencing drafts, whereas you say there is nothing like that :)
>
> Perhaps the best avenue here is what James suggests: obtain permission
> to advance despite the dependencies. I'm not sure how easy that is to
> do, though.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrei

Well, I can check.

Thanks,
Lars Erik

Received on Friday, 9 March 2012 07:56:01 UTC