- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:04:10 -0500
- To: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org, whatwg@whatwg.org, public-html@w3.org
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:40 -0700, John Foliot wrote: > [...] Despite protracted discussion (argument?) and a > formal submission from the WAI PF regarding the requirement of headers for > complicated tables on June 6, 2007 > [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jun/0145.html], the > "official" word from Ian Hickson is that they've "not yet looked at them". > > What more needs to be looked at? Our community provided research, rationale > and worked within the system (and the system's rules) in response to this > issue, yet it is still deemed open or unresolved. It is *exactly* this kind > of response/reaction that many such as myself are frustrated with. This > issue should be resolved - now. I sympathize with your frustration, but I ask that you remain patient. I am in regular communication with Al Gilman about that June 6 message. He understands that it may be some weeks/months before the HTML WG has a considered response. (I think I just missed you yesterday, Al.) The current priorities of this group, as noted in the "Current Events" section of our homepage http://www.w3.org/html/wg/#current 1. design principles 2. initial reviews of the HTML 5 spec These initial reviews are breadth-first; the goal is to raise issues and awareness, but not to fully address all the issues that come up, just yet. I tried putting something else ahead of design principles, namely a "differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5" document, but there were formal objections that appealed to the "What should the HTML WG publish first?" survey http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/wd7/results which put the design principles ahead of the spec, 34 to 25. The back-log of comments on HTML specs goes back a lot further than June of this year. In May, the editors asked for a few months to deal with a backlog of a few years of WHATWG feedback. It has now been a few months, and I'm starting to re-negotiate priorities with the editors. But keep in mind that we have, so far, made *no* design decisions. We haven't decided that HTML 5 will have a p element. Before we address subtle issues like the table headers issue, first we should deal with the fact that we're about 3 months overdue for releasing anything on http://www.w3.org/TR/ for community review by finishing the current round of discussion on design principles. Then I think we should tackle a few no-brainer technical issues just to get a feel for the process. And then we'll decide about table headers and that sort of thing. I appreciate the testing and research that is going on meanwhile. That's an essential part of quality design decision-making. I recommend teleconferences as a good way to get a feel for group priorities and schedule. For example, we talked about the timing of this table headers issue last week. http://www.w3.org/2007/08/16-html-wg-minutes#item05 -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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