Re: Review of ISSUE-164 change proposals - Part 4: Remove hgroup add an outlineMask attribute

Hi paul,

> Please let the Chairs know by Tue Jul 31 if you plan to revise your change
> proposal and when you can do the revision by.

I will make the changes by a week tomorrow (thur 2nd Aug)

On 25 July 2012 00:10, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com> wrote:
> We have five change proposals for ISSUE-164:
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> http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-164
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>
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> The following is a Chairs review of the following change proposal:
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> Remove hgroup add an outlineMask attribute
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> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/OutlineMask
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> 1. Structure of change proposal
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> The proposal includes an appropriate Summary (actually entitled “Change
> Proposal”), Rationale,  Details and Impact (only Risk are provided).
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> 2. General comments on change proposal
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> a) Rationale
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> Several other Change Proposals make assertions about the implementation
> experience of <hgroup>.  Your Rationale would be stronger if you mentioned
> this item to give your position relative to the implementation experience of
> <hgroup>.
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> b) Details
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> It would be much better if the supplied Details section was written more in
> the style of a new section for the proposed outlineMask attribute.   It may
> not be obvious to the CP reader or to the Editor if you have given all the
> material needed for the new outlineMask attribute you are proposing.  If
> this new attribute can only be used on the <h1> … <h6> elements then surely
> the Details should indicate changes to Section 4.4.6 “The h1, h2, h3, h4,
> h5, and h6 elements”
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> In addition, these Details are possibly inadequate.  If these instructions
> imply that just Section 4.4.7 "The hgroup element" should be removed then
> they omit the other mentions to <hgroup> in the HTML5 specification.  In
> addition the detail to add the proposed outlineMask attribute omits any
> indication if outlineMask attribute should be added to any other sections in
> the document to replace the <hgroup> occurrences.
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> Please let the Chairs know by Tue Jul 31 if you plan to revise your change
> proposal and when you can do the revision by.
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> /paulc
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> HTML WG co-chair
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> [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html#the-hgroup-element
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> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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> 17 Eleanor Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6A3
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> Tel: (425) 705-9596 Fax: (425) 936-7329
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