- From: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:28:32 -0500
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>
On 6/18/2011 2:00 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2011-06-18 04:06, Shelley Powers wrote: >> ... >> We shouldn't have to, at this time in the process, spend the next >> several months trying to spot the major changes that the editor >> introduces without any warning or any previous discussion. What makes >> things worse is that not ony are we having to deal with major >> differences between the W3C and WHATWG HTML documents, but now even the >> Last Call and editor's drafts of HTML5 at the W3C are significantly >> different--differences not introduced through the procedure you hold so >> dear. >> ... > > +1 on this. > > Last Call means that for every change to the "living standard", > *somebody* will need to figure out whether it needs to go to the HTML5 > spec as well and make that happen (and nothing more). A "branch", so > to speak. > > Until this happens, LC doesn't work for me. It's already impossible to > review the full spec; but having to watch for surprising feature > additions as we go along makes things much worse. > If I understand the emails Sam Ruby sent in the other thread, the editor will be allowed to add whatever he wants to the HTML5 specification--without having to go through any procedure, file a bug, or address the issue in the HTML WG. Good luck. Shelley > Best regards, Julian
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