RE: Working Group Decision on ISSUE-91: Removing the aside Element

Laura Carlson wrote:

> The point of the chairs decision documents are to provide a decision.
> They did that.

Correct.


> But the chairs didn't address or discuss points Shelley
> raised in her change proposals. If the chairs could do that, it might
> avoid a formal objection. I don't know.

I don't think that at this point in the process that would be their 
responsibility. Their role is/was to ensure that W3C process was followed 
properly, which it was.

The 'philosophical' decision to keep the element(s) mentioned in Issues 90 & 
91 in HTML5 has been reached following W3C process. At this point, if a 
*member of the Working Group* feels that there are 'issues' with aspects of 
these elements, I would suspect that the appropriate next step would be to 
file one or more bug reports against that element. However, the fundamental 
decision or retaining or abandoning this element has been addressed, and the 
decision has been made, and so any such bug report should focus on 
'remediation' rather than removal at this time (unless a clear technical 
argument that demonstrates 'harm' is brought forth). Chairs, is this 
correct?

Finally, I would also suggest that arguments based upon current 
implementation versus non-implementation in one or more browser has little 
weight today: there are huge swaths of HTML5 that is or isn't supported in 
any given browser (geo-location, forms, local storage, land-mark elements, 
etc.) and if we were to strip HTML5 of elements and features simply because 
we do not have universal or even demonstrable support in browsers today is 
short-sighted IMHO - we are as much building for the future as we are for 
next week.

JF

Received on Friday, 4 June 2010 20:38:30 UTC