- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:40:55 -0700
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: "public-webapps@w3.org WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
On Mar 29, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Doug Schepers wrote: > Hi, Folks- > > I've put together a wiki page [1] that I propose to send to the AC > as a further clarification on the charter discussion. How does this > look to you? > > Does everyone agree that this is fair representation of the changed > work in the WebApps WG charter? > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/Charter More comments: It may be worth noting that some of the deliverables described as alternate proposals do not actually match the charter descriptions for the previous main deliverables. For example, the 2008 charter describes CORS thus: "A mechanism for selective and secure cross-domain scripting (formerly Access Control for Cross-site Requests)." But UMP is arguably not "selective"; it lets you limit what resources can be access cross-domain, but not who can access them, by design. The 2008 charter describes Web Storage thus: "Two APIs for client-side data storage in Web applications: a name- value pair system, and a database system with a SQL frontend." But Indexed Database clearly does not really satisfy the description of either of those two APIs, again, by design. I think it's better to be forthright about this. The whole reason these APIs exist is to differ in a fundamental way from the other relevant charter deliverables in a fundamental way. I also disagree with both describing Widget Embedding as new, and then also describing it as split from another document. It was certainly not split from anything published under the 2008 charter; rather it is apparently based on a section heading of an empty section from a draft published in 2007. Since it's already listed as new, I don't think further explanation is needed, and would rather just see it listed as new without comment than to debate its historical origins. Or I would be fine with a note that it's based on concepts that preceded the 2008 charter period. Regards, Maciej
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