Re: ISSUE-10: suggest closing: how similar should SMIL and <video> attribute names be?

Dan Connolly wrote:
> Taking silence as assent on this sort of thing is
> tricky... I'm checking internally with the W3C staff,
> but one thing I've forgotten to do in some other
> cases is also check directly with the chairs and WGs.

The real issue is that this (as well as other) issues have sat dormant 
with no forward progress for a long period of time.

> Dick, Eric, would you please
> (a) acknowledge receipt,
> (b) let us know whether the SMIL WG is OK with this?
> 
> If you can't do them both in a few days, please do
> (a) and estimate when you can do (b).

That's exactly what we need.  If this request attracts an owner and a 
schedule to either close the issue or to identify tangible changes that 
need to be taken to HTML5, then the issue will remain open.

- Sam Ruby

> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 02:41 -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>> On Aug 11, 2009, at 2:26 AM, Olivier GENDRIN wrote:
>>
>>> (+cc www-smil)
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Maciej Stachowiak<mjs@apple.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/10
>>>>
>>>> Since this issue was raised, there has not been significant  
>>>> interest in
>>>> changing the attribute names on <video> and <audio> to match SMIL  
>>>> elements.
>>>> I suggest we close this issue. Anyone who wants to make a technical  
>>>> case for
>>>> changing one or more of the attributes would remain free to do so.
>>> Did we recieved any advice from the smil team about this ?
>> We had this input from the SYMM WG on December, 2007: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Dec/0219.html
>>
>> This linked to a detailed comparison, but there was apparently little  
>> interest in changing HTML5 <video> to be more like SMIL, since the  
>> message received no replies and there was no follow-up.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Maciej
>>

Received on Thursday, 13 August 2009 22:44:39 UTC