- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:10:38 -0700
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@exchange.microsoft.com>
On Aug 4, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> On Aug 4, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Laura Carlson wrote: >>> Hi Shelley, >>> >>> You wrote to Maciej: >>> >>>> I appreciate that you tried to find a compromise, and admire your >>>> effort. But the issue really isn't between Ian and John. >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> Table summary is an open issue in the HTML WG Tracker. And it >>> should >>> be marked as open in the spec, whether John's or Ian's or some >>> combination of words are used. >>> >>> Cynthia Shelly has Action 128 to "Work with PF to find an owner for >>> drafting @summary text proposal" [1]. Let's give Cynthia a chance. >> I'm not inclined to withdraw my compromise proposal, just because >> someone else has 9 days left to find yet another person to >> eventually make a different proposal. But I welcome comments on the >> substance. > > No one is asking you to withdraw your proposal. I believe that all > that is being pointed out is that Cynthia will not forfeit her > opportunity to present a proposal simply because you have prepared > one. I haven't asked anyone to forfeit their opportunity to present a proposal. But my perception (perhaps incorrect) was that this was cited as a reason to fail to give substantive consideration to my proposal at this time. > > I will confirm that Cynthia is making good progress. I met with her > last week and this week I have seen a first draft of @summary text > proposal that hopefully she will be ready to present to the group > shortly. If you are looking towards producing something that could > be workable as a long-term solution, it would make sense to factor > this in. > > I will also note that Cynthia has not historically had the bandwidth > to participate in this mailing list, but often does find the time to > attend the weekly teleconferences. > > I am quite willing to decouple the near term need for a poll (should > there still be a desire to have one) from your activities (which > apparently are focused on the longer term). I'm willing and able to attend the telecon this week to discuss my summary="" proposal, as well as anyone else's, if you think that would be helpful. Regards, Maciej
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