- From: Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:49:33 -0400
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008, Robert Sayre wrote: >> >> I'm not sure why you're sending private email about this. I asked a >> simple question on the public list. > > I replied privately to the first question because it seemed rude to spam > the list about it. I've cc'ed www-archive on this mail. I've changed it back to public-webapi. If you ask me, it seems a bit rude to get all control freak about the venue and then republish what was private mail. > > >> Olli wrote: >> "Gecko does what the current spec says." >> >> So clearly there is some disconnect about the nature of the change >> you're proposing. > > Sure. Like I said, the spec right now contradicts itself. If it didn't > there wouldn't be much reason to ask for errata. :-) Why not fix it and supercede it? > > Included for archival purposes: > >> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> > On Wed, 14 May 2008, Robert Sayre wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 14 May 2008, Robert Sayre wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> >> >> > >> >> >> > To my knowledge, very little Web content relies on this spec at >> >> >> > all. That's why Acid3 tested it, to make it interoperable enough >> >> >> > that it could be used. :-) >> >> >> >> >> >> I thought Acid3 tested things that have been written down for at >> >> >> least 5 years or something like that. >> >> > >> >> > DOM2 Range came out in November 2000. >> >> >> >> So it tests what was written in 2000 or the proposed as yet unwritten >> >> change? >> > >> > The spec right now does support what Acid3 does, it's just that it is >> > ambiguous in its requirments and can be interpreted the other way around >> > as well. Contradictions in specs happen, just like bugs in software. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > -- Robert Sayre "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
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