- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:14:17 +0200
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "Paul Cotton" <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:58:14 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > On 16.06.2010 01:40, Ian Hickson wrote: >> <p>This version of the W3C HTML5 specification is a snapshot of part >> of the work done by these groups as of [LONGDAY] [YEAR]. Because the >> HTML specification is continuously being maintained, implementors >> and authors are strongly urged to read the latest editor's draft >> instead of this snapshot. The W3C and WHATWG editor's drafts of HTML > > I think it's bad to publish working drafts, and to tell people not to > look at them. There's a reason snapshots are published. > > I have no problem in pointing out that current edits reside somewhere > else, but we don't need to go further than that. We've had this discussion before and in practice these TR/ snapshots turn out to waste quite a bit of time of engineers. I've seen it happen on multiple occasions at Opera and I'm sure it happens elsewhere too. Somehow they get to the TR/ version unknowingly a lot of the issues they encounter have already been fixed. Clearly pointing them in the right direction makes a lot of sense. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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