Re: CfC: publish a Candidate Recommendation of DOM 3 Events; deadline October 21

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, *I do object to the publication* of this specification because the
> inappropriate resolution of the following issues (in no particular order):
>
> First (issue 123), it contradicts an uncontested requirement [1] in DOM4
> forbidding the minting of new DOM feature strings, as reported by Anne. [2]
>
> Second (issue 179), it ignores the consensus about using DOMException
> instead of custom exception types like EventException, as noted in WebIDL,
> [3] which I reported. [4]
>
> Third (issue 130), the resolution made to add an informative WebIDL appendix
> is insufficient. Not only did the editors not list any technical reason for
> this decision in their reply, [5] despite this being required by the Process
> document. [6]

I agree with all three of these objections, and don't think the
specification should progress to CR unless they're fixed.

Received on Monday, 24 October 2011 15:31:04 UTC