- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:41:22 -0500
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 02/01/2011 01:03 PM, Steve Faulkner wrote: > hi Maciej, > > >Since hgroup has been in the draft for a long > >time with no significant changes, we are not going to treat this as a > >post-cutoff change that reduces consensus. > > if there is broad agreement that the hgroup textshould be removed how is > that reducing consensus? If there is broad agreement to remove it, the chairs will not intercede. What Maciej is referring to is that the chairs will not ask for a change to be reverted from the LC-track draft pending resolution of the issue per Enhanced change control after the Last Call cutoff: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Sep/0125.html > >If we have a poll on this topic, it will at best be advisory. > >Since hgroup has been in the draft for a long > >time with no significant changes, we are not going to treat this as a > >post-cutoff change that reduces consensus. > > would have useful to know that the chairs will not allow the html > working group members to make any decisions of this nature in one of the > earlier emails directed at the chairs on this issue. You are misinterpreting what Maciej said. > regards > stevef - Sam Ruby > On 1 February 2011 17:47, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net > <mailto:rubys@intertwingly.net>> wrote: > > On 02/01/2011 12:33 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > > If we have a poll on this topic, it will at best be advisory. We > will > follow the usual decision policy for hgroup. Since the bug on > hgroup was > not filed by the October 1st cutoff, it is not eligible to be > treated as > a pre-Last Call issue. Since hgroup has been in the draft for a long > time with no significant changes, we are not going to treat this > as a > post-cutoff change that reduces consensus. I do not see anything > about > hgroup that requires inventing a special ad-hoc process. > > > +1 > > Regards, > Maciej > > > - Sam Ruby > > > > > -- > with regards > > Steve Faulkner > Technical Director - TPG > > www.paciellogroup.com <http://www.paciellogroup.com> | > www.HTML5accessibility.com <http://www.HTML5accessibility.com> | > www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner <http://www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner> > HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - > dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ <http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/> > Web Accessibility Toolbar - > www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html > <http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html>
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