Re: CfC: Publish HTML5, RDFa heartbeats and Microdata, 2D Context and H:TML as FPWDs

Sam Ruby wrote:
> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to publish new revisions of the
> following documents in accordance with the Working Group Heartbeat
> requirements:
> 
> HTML 5: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/
> HTML+RDFa: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/
> 
> and to publish as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD) the following
> documents:
> 
> HTML Microdata: http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/
> HTML Canvas 2D Context: http://dev.w3.org/html5/2dcontext/
> HTML: The Markup Language: http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/
> 
> Additionally, and as we have done with previous republications of the
> HTML5 draft, the chairs would like to ask Anne to update the HTML5 diffs
> from HTML4 to reflect the latest changes.  Given that HTML+RDFa has been
> introduced, and that Microdata and Canvas 2D Context have been split
> out, since the last time this document was published, the chairs would
> like to request that simple links to all three documents be provided.
> 
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/
> 
> Silence will be taken to mean there is no objection, but positive
> responses are encouraged. If there are no objections by Wednesday,
> February 17th, this resolution will carry.
> 
> Considerations to note:
> 
> - As a First Public Working Draft, this publication will trigger patent
> policy review.
> - As a Working Draft publication, the document does not need not be
> complete, to meet all technical requirements, or to have consensus on
> the contents.
> - Objections may be made on specific documents but not on others.
> Counting the differences document, there are effectively six different
> documents under consideration at this time.
> ...

Sam,

I'd like to mention that "HTML Microdata" is *not* a simple extract of 
existing sections, but re-adds the predefined vocabularies part, which 
was removed from HTML5 in December (see 
<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/73>).

I already have objected to re-publish these sections as part of the 
Microdata spec, see 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0042.html>. In 
particular, I'd like to see a statement from the editor about whether 
this is intentional, or just an oversight (potentially caused by the way 
the specs are generated).

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:46:22 UTC