- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:38:41 +0100
- To: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, public-html-admin@w3.org
On 05/12/2013 21:15 , Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: > The Web Applications Working Group is trying to move the Progress Event > specification to Proposed Recommendation. During the transition call, it > was noted that Progress Event relies on DOM Events, including the event > init mechanism introduced in DOM4. > > The implementation report of Progress Event [1] establishes that there > are 3 implementations of the event init mechanism already (two might > originate from the same code however). > > Since most of section 5 of DOM Events finds its origin in the previous > DOM specifications and there is some implementation of the event init > mechanism, does the HTML Working Group believe that section 5 of the DOM > specification is stable enough that changes to that section won't impact > comformant implementations of Progress Event? A positive answer would > allow the Progress Event specification to move forward. Having looked at the specific parts of DOM4 that PE relies on, I can't really see how DOM4 could be changed without breaking implementations or other specifications relying on it. Therefore, it is my opinion that PE can move forward safely and unimpeded. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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