- 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
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leif halvard silli
Received on Thursday, 24 June 2010 14:03:35 UTC