- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:21:36 -0500
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: spec-prod <spec-prod@w3.org>
On 3 Jul 2012, at 4:07 PM, fantasai wrote: > On 07/03/2012 12:50 PM, Ian Jacobs wrote: >> >> Please include two more bits: >> >> * Superseded. There should be a visible indicator (and non-visible information as well) when a specification has been superseded. This may happen >> as frequently as "with the publication of the next draft.") > > I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you show me an example? Sure: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-owl-parsing-20040121/ > >> * Ready to use? There should be an easy-to-find answer to that question up front. Where the answer is "Yes, but..." there should be clues of how to >> get more detail. > > The answer is "Yes, but..." in every case, isn't it? :) > Officially CR or later is "ready to use", right? But that doesn't seem > to be a high-fidelity marker these days. I agree, and wanted to have a way for people to find easily any useful guidance about what is or is not yet widely supported. That guidance might live outside the spec, so a strong clue and a link was what I was looking for. > I'm not sure how much it makes > sense to make up some other status marker that's unrelated to the W3C > Process. I can see that point, but I also think people want a sense of a tipping point that reasonable interop is not far away. > The CSSWG has its own set of phases, which are used on > http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work > but I'm not sure they'd be relevant to other WGs. > >> Also, I don't love "Paraphernalia". How about "Use it" ? There should be a link for errata there as well (when relevant). > > I don't think "Use it" is an improvement, but Paraphernalia was > chosen to make people come up with better ideas. :P +1 to forcing attention. I'll watch the thread. Ian > > ~fantasai > -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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