- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 01:13:11 -0500
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
At 2000-03-07 15:33-0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >I agree with the proposal. I would prefer to say in the techniques that >developers should pay close attention to working drafts in general, and >particularly those that have advanced as far as candidate recommendation. And take so seriously that they comment on the candidate or proposed recs. >Charles McCN > >On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Ian Jacobs wrote: > > Hello, > > In the Candidate Rec of the UAAG 1.0, checkpoint 6.2 reads: > > "Conform to W3C specifications when they are appropriate > for a task. [Priority 2]." > > The WG has already resolved [2] to change the wording to: > > "Use and conform to W3C specifications when they are > available and appropriate for a task." > Of course, this conformance implies some time lag to get into product upgrade cycles (and their testing/debugging/reissuing.) > > I propose changing "specifications" to "Recommendations". > This would narrow the scope of the requirement. It would not > prevent user agents from conforming to additional levels > of documents, but would only require conformance to > Recommendations. Furthermore, we should note in the Techs > document that developers should pay close attention to > Candidate Rec drafts. I agree: Specifications to me have the presumption of standards agencies, and glacially slow evolution, while international concurrence is obtained. These are Technical Recommendations. > > I would like to discuss this at the 9 March meeting. Please > voice any objections before then. > > Thank you, > > - Ian > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-UAAG10-20000128 > [2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2000/03/wai-ua-telecon-20000302.html > > -- > Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs > Cell: +1 917 450-8783 > > >-- >Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI >Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 >Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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