Re: DOM reference in WebVTT Draft CG Report

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org> wrote:
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> Le 19/10/2016 à 05:29, David Singer a écrit :
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>>> On Oct 18, 2016, at 18:42 , Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org> wrote:
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>>> Simon,
>>> If we start having diffs from the CG draft and the WG draft, it may be a
>>> nightmare to synchronize those documents for publication.
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>>> For TR we can't use normative reference linking to unstable documents.
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>>> I suggest you have a normative ref to W3C DOM4 and an informative ref to
>>> [WHATWG-DOM] and this would probably do the trick.
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>> It’s a hack, but OK.  We could have a line in the text even saying “the
>> formal spec. is at X but the version at Y may be more up to date”
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> yes but if  the text to link to a reference section (Normative or
> informative).
> It is easier to maintain references, than looking into URL in the the text.


FWIW: the HTML reference is to the WHATWG version also, so we should
be consistent.

Cheers,
Silvia.

Received on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 06:15:06 UTC