- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:44:37 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
- cc: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Glenn Adams wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > What I don't really understand, though, is why any of this is needed > > at all. What value is the W3C adding by creating these forks? > > The problem as I see it is that the WHATWG documents are "living > documents" and never final per se. A WD isn't final either. > If the WHATWG documents were published (by WHATWG) as fixed snapshots > during their lifecycle, then perhaps it wouldn't be necessary for the > W3C to create snapshots. > > For business and legal purposes, it is often a requirement to have such > snapshots that are known to never change. Every time a change is made, there is a snapshot made as well. For example, here's the XHR snapshot from October 11th: https://raw.github.com/whatwg/xhr/f4652f2a07b5614236b5be53f9769082bfb86070/Overview.html -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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