- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 19:21:37 -0600
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Shelley Powers wrote: > >> >> >> Changes of this significance should have been discussed in the group >> first. > > Seems like they did get discussion in the related bugs, and in general the > particular split applied seems like a reasonable attempt to compromise > between different positions presented, though some of the details of the > split strike me as odd. > >> >> If folks were concerned about the details section earlier, this change >> is so far beyond that change, as to make the removal of details >> nothing more than a minor nuisance. > > In a way it's a much smaller change, since the total of all the split specs > ends up producing the same implementation and author requirements, whereas > removing <details> was non-editorial change. On the other hand, this change > seems to have broken a bunch of cross-references, which makes it hard to > find relevant definitions and requirements. > > In any case, I believe the mechanism of splitting the spec makes it > relatively easy to change the split boundaries. So we can have the > discussion now, if anyone has a problem with the specific way the split was > done. Let's try to flush those issues out before publishing more Working > Drafts, so we don't thrash the TR page if we change our minds about how to > do this. > > Regards, > Maciej > > Check out bug 8118, to remove the Hidden attribute: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8118 Here's Ian's response: Status: Accepted Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The hidden="" attribute is no longer in the vocabulary spec, it's now only defined in the split-out spec with the user interaction stuff. Now tell me something: is this the response of a person who is working with the group? S
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