Re: plan for removing hgroup from spec

sure no problem, will plan to do the edits week of 15th April instead

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HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 4 April 2013 16:38, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com> wrote:

>  I would like to suggest that Steve delay this change so that WG members
> have longer than 5 days to consider this change to HTML 5.1.  The
> notification period covered the Easter weekend and lots of people take
> vacation at this time of year including Steve.****
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> *From:* Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 04, 2013 7:06 AM
> *To:* public-html-admin@w3.org
> *Cc:* Robin Berjon; Edward O'Connor (ted@oconnor.cx); Silvia Pfeiffer;
> Erika Doyle Navara; Travis Leithead
> *Subject:* Re: plan for removing hgroup from spec****
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> Hi all,
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> I plan to do the edits to remove <hgroup> on Monday 8th April, before I
> leave on vacation for a week.****
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> any objections?
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> SteveF****
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> On 3 April 2013 10:49, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:***
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> Hi all,
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> as per the chairs decision I plan to remove hgroup from the HTML5 spec.
> It will be made non conforming, but the implemented parsing rules and user
> agent CSS rules will remain (as is usual for obsoleted) elements and add
> advice on how to mark up subheadings/subtitles and the like to the common
> idioms[2] section
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> I also plan to do the same as above for HTML 5.1.
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> By doing this we can start with a levelish playing field and allow
> interested parties to gather data/define use cases/ do research and create
> extension specs for a feature for identifying subheadings, this may be a
> modified hgroup or something else or maybe nobody comes up with a good
> enough set of use cases/research/data to meet the high bar we should be
> setting for adding an element to HTML and we may decide that providing
> advice on how to mark up subheadings with existing elements is appropriate.
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> I have created a bug https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21563to track discussion, please feedback here or there.
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