Re: DOM reference in WebVTT Draft CG Report

Le 19/10/2016 à 08:14, Silvia Pfeiffer a écrit :
> 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:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> For TR we can't use normative reference linking to unstable documents.
>>>>
>>>> I suggest you have a normative ref to W3C DOM4 and an informative ref to
>>>> [WHATWG-DOM] and this would probably do the trick.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
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> FWIW: the HTML reference is to the WHATWG version also, so we should
> be consistent.

Right. we should be consistent.
The HTML reference to WHATWG version is the same issue.
It should be also update.

as I said earlier, if we start having diffs from the CG draft and the WG 
draft, it may be a nightmare to synchronize those documents by updating 
refs and other stuff for each TR publication.

Thierry.




>
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
>

Received on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 06:27:34 UTC