Re: Timeline for HTML

On 06/07/2017 20:16, Joshua Bell wrote:
> We could also question whether it's necessary to push on this with any 
> urgency.
> 
> In the current state, Indexed DB https://w3c.github.io/IndexedDB/ has 
> normative references to HTML https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ and 
> DOM https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/ (and Infra 
> https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/ apparently - yay Bikeshed!): 

> I filed the relevant issue with the intent that having 
> https://w3c.github.io/html/ and https://w3c.github.io/dom/ include the 
> same content would seemingly be ideal (W3C having normative dependencies 
> on other W3C where possible), but Indexed DB is not inconsistent due to 
> the absence. I don't want to push unnecessary work on others, or delay 
> other work.

Thanks Josh, appreciate you mentioning this. The issue is worth 
resolving (and its been open since March), so good to get it done if we 
can.

> 
> (As an aside, I note that 
> https://w3c.github.io/dom/#index-defined-elsewhere lists normative 
> dependencies on https://dom.spec.whatwg.org - but that may be a tooling 
> issue rather than intent)
> 
> 

Quite possibly, yes. We'll take a look.


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Received on Friday, 7 July 2017 10:07:10 UTC