- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:05:46 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Feb 16, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: >>> >>>> Some people have discouraged the idea of creating more components >>>> because it would break people's existing tools. If others >>>> consider it important for clarity, then we can create new >>>> components (or some other distinguishing feature, such as >>>> keywords). >>> >>> I think new components would be good, but keywords as workaround >>> might work as well. >> I'm a little wary of changing our set of components because it >> seems to break things when we do it. The alternatives I thought of: >> ... > > On 2nd thought: using the existing "HTML5" component is even worse. > It will break existing queries like "how many bugs do we have open > on HTML5"? Which, I would argue, is the query we should focus on :-) What I'm worried about breaking is automated tools. Whatever we decide, we definitely can and should make a query for only the HTML5 bugs. In fact it might be a good idea to add queries for all of our active drafts to the HTML WG homepage. Regards, Maciej
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