- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:17:32 +0300
- To: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
I happened to find this curious statement in the IRC logs of a third WG: "Gregory: We (WAI) arranged a special meeting with HTML5 people to discuss Aria, and no one from HTML5 turned up" "... so we are ignoring them for the moment" http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/xhtml/20080402#l-139 I wonder what meeting this was. To my knowledge, the previous meeting where the PFWG invited HTML WG participants was a face-to-face meeting at TPAC. And there were people from the HTML WG there. I checked public-html and public-html-wg-announce archives, and I didn't see a meeting invitation. When was the meeting supposed to be and who was invited? - - On a more general note: Face-to-face meeting and telecons are problematic for discussing detailed technical things like language integration, because people don't have the opportunity to re-study drafts, write test cases and do research in order to make informed statements and change their opinions based on verified information in the middle of the conversation. Moreover, by charter[1], the HTML WG "primarily conducts its technical work on a Public mailing list public-html". After all, face-to-face meetings and telecons would discriminate against a substantial number of HTML WG participants. The HTML WG had a recent success in inter-WG language integration discussion with the Math WG. The thread was simply CCed to both public- html and www-math. I think a similar mode of discussion would work for ARIA and HTML5. In addition to public-html, I have addressed this message to wai-xtech, since according to the PFWG charter[2] it is the PFWG list for non-confidential matters. I realize that in general ARIA work doesn't happen on a public mailing list, but it is a problem if issues relevant to HTML integration gravitate into the Member space where most HTML WG participants can't go. (And those who can go there aren't allowed to discuss what they find there on the HTML WG communication channels.) [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html#communication [2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/charter200612#Communication -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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