Re: Discrepancies in published drafts

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:
> I received a question today from a colleague who's reviewing the Last Call. It seemed useful to bring that question here. He writes:
>
> "I note that starting with the "Working Draft 25 May 2011"
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/), taking the link to "single page HTML"
> format goes to "Editor's Draft 15 July 2011", and the Overview (single
> page HTML) version of that seems to lack all of section 3 and most of
> section 4, etc.
>
> "Is it safe to use the single page HTML edition for most tasks,
> resorting to the multiple page version for content missing from the
> former, and is it (as I assume) best to be working exclusively from the
> July 15 Editor's Draft?"
>
> I presume any omission is unintentional and will be addressed. However,
> was it intended to publish newer drafts while the Last Call is still
> open? Clearly, we've triggered caution in at least one outside reviewer.
> What's the answer? The public call was issued against the May document.
> Does it matter? It just doesn't seem tidy to me to have a more recently
> dated edition linked from the older edition--especially during a Last
> Call. Is that untidiness the worst of it? Or is there room for confusion
> in the bug processing end here as well?

I don't see anything missing from the single-page Editor's Draft.
Could you provide exact URLs to the problematic versions?

~TJ

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