- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 18:23:17 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- cc: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: > > The goal is to demonstrate that the materials referenced are stable and > any change to those references won't have an impact on the > recommendations. What do you mean by "stable"? If we find something wrong with a REC, we still need to change it, since otherwise browsers are going to implement things that are wrong... (e.g. anyone implementing HTML4 now is going to be in a world of trouble because HTML4 has all kinds of mistakes in it, despite being a REC -- HTML4 is not "stable" at all.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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