- From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:43:02 +0800
- To: "Carr, Wayne" <wayne.carr@intel.com>
- Cc: "public-w3process@w3.org" <public-w3process@w3.org>
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 10:35 +0000, Carr, Wayne wrote: > With HTML4 we have the formal W3C Recommendation for HTML, but no one > would want that as the basis for a UA. It has been superseded by > HTML5. But, people still write that html4 is the html spec and html5 > is in the future. Obviously, that doesn’t reflect the Web Browsers > out there which have embraced html5. But html5 is still years away > from going to REC. > > It seems in this (hopefully) unusual situation, there should be some > way to mark the html4 REC with a note that indicates it has been > superseded by html5 in implementations, with a pointer to the latest > W3C html WG TR draft in the html4 spec. And start more frequent > updates of the TR html5 WD so it isn’t so far out of date. > > Things have changed and for html5 drafts are acting like RECs. W3Cs > documents should reflect that. We actually got a request from the WebApps related to the DOM specifications. The Group didn't come up with specific wording yet but we already told them that we could add a note on the REC if asked. In the case of HTML4, the right approach would be for the HTML Working Group to discuss this and come up with a proposal. Philippe
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