- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:02:12 -0500
- To: shane@aptest.com
- Cc: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, "spec-prod@w3.org" <spec-prod@w3.org>
On Oct 21, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote: > Hmm. I think it is important that TR/short-name/ continue to work as it has. The industry knows this is where you go to find specs, and I wouldn't want to have to *decide* which one to read. On the other hand, I think a convention that was TR/short-name/menu or list or something would be great! A standardized way to get to the list of all versions of a spec We have that today for all specs. Click on the date on the TR page. Example: http://www.w3.org/standards/history/css-cascade-3 Ian > . We tried this in the XHTML working group back in the day, and it was moderately successful. > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com> wrote: > Speaking of making /TR/ more useful, here's YA proposal ... > > Instead of TR/<shortname>/ resulting in a specific snapshot, it is just a short document with a set of links to the document's various incarnations and the user can then go to the version of choice. F.ex.: > > <ul> > <li><a href="github/.../">Latest Editor's Draft</></li> > <li><a href="TR/YYYY/FPWD-shortname-YYYYMMDD">First Public Working Draft</a</li> > <li><a href="TR/YYYY/WD-shortname-YYYYMMDD">Last Published Working Draft</a</li> > <li><a href="TR/YYYY/LCWD-shortname-YYYYMMDD">Last Call Working Draft</a</li> > <li><a href="TR/YYYY/CR-shortname-YYYYMMDD">Candidate Recommendation</a</li> > ... > <li><a href="TR/YYYY/REC-shortname-YYYYMMDD">Recommendation</a</li> > </ul> > > (and use "Not Published" when applicable) > > -Cheers, AB > > > > > > > -- > Shane P. McCarron > Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc. -- Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260 9447
Received on Monday, 21 October 2013 18:02:15 UTC