- From: Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:27:18 -0800
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- CC: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:46:12 -0800, Arthur Barstow > <art.barstow@nokia.com> wrote: > >> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to publish a Last Call Working >> Draft of the following specs: >> >> 1. Server-Sent Events >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/ >> >> 2. Web SQL Database >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/ >> >> 3. Web Sockets API >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/ >> >> 4. Web Storage >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/ >> >> 5. Web Workers >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/workers/ >> >> This CfC satisfies the group's requirement to "record the group's >> decision to request advancement" to LCWD. Note that as specified in >> the Process Document [PD], a Working Group's Last Call announcement >> is a signal that: > > Opera is not convinced that webdatabase is sufficiently clear and > supported to be a last call draft. However we support the publication > of the other drafts mentioned as last call working drafts. > My personal position is the same as the above. While I support all the other specifications proceeding to LC, I think that more work needs to be done in order for webdatabase to proceed to the next step. Punting to a particular implementation (in this case, a version of SQLite) as a normative part of a specification is unprecedented in standards that this WG has released. -- A*
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