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Re: Differences between WHATWG and W3C specs

From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 07:16:10 +0100
Message-ID: <CA+ri+V=9YsVUwUL2nnDAUUzUw6q0YoxDaCfZgnk5-uR7+mQ=HA@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Jens O. Meiert" <jens@meiert.com>
Cc: W3C Public HTML <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Jens,

The definition of cite (and blockquote) is under active discussion and
editing currently (suggest you look in HTML WG archives of past few
months). The changes made to cite/blockquote are a result of these
discussions. If you have specific input on such changes I encourage you to
respond on bug(s) [1]


As to the more process related aspect of your question

to wonder how useful maintaining two specs really is—and whether we on the
> W3C
> side take the appropriate steps to keep such differences to a minimum?
>

Can I suggest you move it to the public-html-admin list [2] as that is the
appropriate list for it.

As to the editorial question of why Ian became Hillary?, as I edit the spec
(when I remember to) try to make use of both genders in examples where
practical.

[1]
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23008
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23175
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22996

[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 20 September 2013 03:17, Jens O. Meiert <jens@meiert.com> wrote:

> There are many differences between the WHATWG and W3C HTML specs.
>
> I’d like to pick a simple example, the <cite> element [1,2], to wonder
> how useful maintaining two specs really is—and whether we on the W3C
> side take the appropriate steps to keep such differences to a minimum?
>
> To use the <cite> example, it doesn’t seem clear what the benefit is
> to remove important parts like “A person's name is not the title of a
> work” (I’ve just observed confusion on a WebAIM list [3]—the WHATWG
> spec was clear about this), and I’d claim it’s not a good use of time
> to change things like names (for example, Ian became Hillary).
>
> In whose interest is this?
>
> If there really is need for two specs, though I don’t want to open
> this can here, what does the group think about limiting changes and
> differences to what reflects insurmountable dispute between groups? Is
> that something to embed in the group charter?
>
>
> [1]
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-cite-element
> [2]
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/text-level-semantics.html#the-cite-element
> [3] http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_message?id=24285
>
>
> --
> Jens O. Meiert
> http://meiert.com/en/
>
>
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