Re: Rescinding the DOM 2 View Recommendation?

On 8/10/11 6:02 PM, ext Doug Schepers wrote:
> After discussion with PLH and Ian Jacobs, and I don't think it's 
> necessary for us to go through the additional overhead of rescinding 
> the DOM 2 View specification.
>
> Instead, PLH and I support Anne's original proposal to simply update 
> the status section of the spec to point people to the HTML5 spec.  We 
> could add wording like:
>
> [[
> Updated definitions of the 'document' and 'defaultView' attributes are 
> now defined by the HTML5 specification.  Other concepts in this 
> specification may not be necessary for implementation in general user 
> agents such as Web browsers.
> ]]
>
> I don't object to rescinding it, I simply prefer the option with the 
> least process necessary.

Anne, Ms2ger, All - can you live with adding a note to D2V rather than 
going down the rescind path?

-AB

Received on Friday, 12 August 2011 11:43:25 UTC