- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:02:56 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Maciej Stachowiak, Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:56:31 -0700: > On Jun 23, 2010, at 3:50 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> The suggested ECMA pdf meets this rationale. > > Perhaps someone should write a Change Proposal that requests a > reference to the ECMA PDF. Julian's does not list this as an option, > even though he has informally said he would be ok with it. Hereby submitted: SUMMARY Replace HTML5's current ASCII reference [1] with a link to latest (6th) edition of ECMA-6 [2]. RATIONALE ECMA-6 is an online, 28 page ASCII spec in PDF format. [2] By contrast, HTML5's current reference is the 103 pages long plain text version of RFC1345 [1], which only at page 47 has 18 lines about ASCII - including an ASCII table, some aliases for the 'ASCII' name plus references (but no links) to real ASCII specs, including the 'pay-walled' ANSI_X3.4-1968 and 3rd edition of ECMA-6 [&alias ISO_646.irv:1991]. Readers will have problems seeing in what way RFC1345 is relevant, and in what way it (including the other 102 pages) is not. DETAILS Replace the reference to [1] with a reference to [2]. IMPACT Positive Effects * 100% a specification of ASCII = 100% relevant. * A self contained reference that doesn't send you to other (non-online) resources. * 100% free and online. Negative Effects * none CONFORMANCE CLASSES CHANGES None RISKS None REFERENCES [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1345.txt [2] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-006.pdf -- leif halvard silli
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