RE: DOM4 and Progress Event

Please note also that thankfully Robin had already responded to Philippe's original email with his review comment:
"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."


Jungkee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Le Hegaret [mailto:plh@w3.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 3:45 AM
> To: Arthur Barstow
> Cc: Alex Russell; Robin Berjon; public-html-admin@w3.org
> Subject: Re: DOM4 and Progress Event
> 
> It now appears that my question wasn't needed, since WebApps already
> answered this same question early in the year while publishing Web Storage
> as a W3C Recommendation. As such, it was already asserted that section 5
> of DOM Events is stable and the Director already agreed with the assertion
> by publishing Web Storage as a W3C Recommendation.
> 
> At this time, I don't believe that a follow-up on this subject is needed.
> 
> Philippe
> 
> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 07:51 -0500, Arthur Barstow wrote:
> > Hi Alex, Robin, All,
> >
> > I would appreciate it if you would please provide feedback on PLH's
> > question as soon as you can (today or tomorrow if possible). FYI, the
> > Draft Proposed Recommendation is
> > <https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/progress/raw-file/default/TR/Overview.html>.
> >
> > -Thanks, ArtB
> >
> > On 12/5/13 3:15 PM, ext 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.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > Philippe
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.w3.org/wiki/Webapps/Interop/ProgressEvents
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>

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