Re: DOM reference in WebVTT Draft CG Report

ah,

can you, PLH, the HTML chairs and other parties help reach an agreement on the way ahead for both HTML and VTT, and then we’ll do what’s agreed?


> On Oct 19, 2016, at 14:26 , Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org> wrote:
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> 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:
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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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
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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.
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>> FWIW: the HTML reference is to the WHATWG version also, so we should
>> be consistent.
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> Right. we should be consistent.
> The HTML reference to WHATWG version is the same issue.
> It should be also update.
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> 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.
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>> Cheers,
>> Silvia.

David Singer
Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 06:46:07 UTC