- From: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:25 -0800
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Sam Ruby wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Sam Ruby wrote: >>> Why is "the" (as in one and only) specification the only document in >>> which this information can make it onto a W3C site? I've seen >>> several specifications which are spread across volumes. Can't >>> different volume in a series be in different states at any given time? >> >> There are a few reasons, but primarily the parts are too >> interconnected. (For example, the offline stuff has to integrate with >> the navigation stuff and the parsing stuff, which has to integrate >> with the scripting stuff, and soon enough you've brought in most of >> the current spec.) > > Care to elaborate? > > From a quick scan of the current draft, the only occurrences of the > word "offline" are in section 4.6. I have no problem believing that > that section would depend on navigation, parsing, and scripting stuff; > what I am curious to see to what extent the reverse is true. One example is in the Navigation section <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/#navigate>. Step 7 describes how to behave in the presence of opportunistic caching namespaces from application cache manifests, which are defined in the Offline Web Applications section <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/#offline>. -Adam
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