Re: My take on 7.2.2

One potential advantage of making the current checkpoint a guideline and
adding new checkpoints is that the checkpoints can be more specific for
conformance verification.  A general checkpoint will be much more difficult
to verify.
Jon


At 01:21 PM 4/8/99 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>No, I don't. So far. I haven't read what Al Gilman has to say on the topic
>yet...
>
>On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Jon Gunderson wrote:
>
>  You don't think we should make 7.2.1 a guideline and then have a new set of
>  checkpoints related to the guideline?
>  
>  Jon
>  
>  
>  At 11:16 PM 4/7/99 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>  >7.2:
>  >
>  >7.2.1 This seems to be subsumed by checkpoint 7.2.3, especially if the
>  words, "particularly for exposing programmatic interfaces" are added.
>  >
>  >7.2.2 [Priority 1]
>  >For desktop graphical browsers. Ensure that exported interfaces conform
>  >to those specified by a W3C DOM Recommendation
>  >
>  >I would only change this slightly:
>  >
>  >For all User Agents. Ensure that where an exported interface is specified
>  by a W3C DOM recommendation, the interface conforms to the DOM
specification.
>  >
>  >OR
>  >Implement W3C DOM Recommendations and expose them.
>  >
>  >7.2.3 see above
>  >
>  >So basically I am not sure that there is anything much I want to change in
>  >7.2
>  >
>  >Charles
>  >
>  >
>  >--Charles McCathieNevile            mailto:charles@w3.org
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>--Charles McCathieNevile            mailto:charles@w3.org
>phone: +1 617 258 0992   http://www.w3.org/People/Charles
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> 
Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
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Champaign, IL 61820

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