- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:20:28 +0200
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, "public-html-admin@w3.org" <public-html-admin@w3.org>
On 2014-09-08 10:48, Robin Berjon wrote: > Hi Julian, > > On 05/09/2014 16:50 , Julian Reschke wrote: >> Well, I reported the issue, you flagged it as "later" (and as far as I >> can tell agreed this is a problem). > > It is certainly a problem that sniffing is not better defined for the > platform. I don't, however, believe that it is a problem for HTML. > >> It seems the only disagreement is whether this is serious enough to >> block a transition to proposed recommendation. I feel it is (*), but I'm >> not a W3C process expert. > > If this were a new feature that happened to be known to be broken and > that we required, it would likely be a problem. But this is a > reverse-engineering issue in which reality is insufficiently > well-documented (and lacks interoperability, within reason). It doesn't > stand in the way of progressing HTML. It is a problem (IMHO) because it's a "MUST" implement lacking an actual spec. Maybe this needs to be demoted to a "MAY" then? Best regards, Julian
Received on Monday, 8 September 2014 09:21:08 UTC