Re: RfC: LCWD of W3C DOM4; deadline July 31

IETF documents are well accepted, and have a known IPR policy. WHATWG
documents are neither. One should anticipate objections at the PR
transition if a normative reference to a WHATWG remains in a document.


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Domenic Denicola <
domenic@domenicdenicola.com> wrote:

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> On Jul 10, 2014, at 9:26, "Glenn Adams" <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
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>    1. The language "nuked from orbit soon" and "will be nuked" needs to
>    be rewritten. This level of informality is inappropriate for a W3C REC
>    track document. Better to say "expect to be deprecated" or similar.
>    2. It is annoying that a search for "Warning!" in the document fails
>    (at least on Chrome and Firefox) because it is injected from a content
>    style property.
>    3. There remains a normative reference to the WHATWG "URL"
>    specification, which needs to be resolved before moving to REC. It would be
>    well advised to describe the expected process for doing this in the SoTD
>    section.
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>  My understanding is that normative references to WHATWG or IETF documents
> are fine in RECs, according to Tantek at least.
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> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> The HTMLWG asked WebApps to review the July 10 LCWD of W3C DOM4:
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>>   <http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-dom-20140710/>
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>> This LC addresses eight [Bugs] in the May [CR]. A diff between the CR and
>> LC is available at [Diff].
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>> Individual WG members are encouraged to provide individual feedback.
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>> If anyone in WebApps wants to propose an official group response, please
>> do so ASAP, in reply to this e-mail so the group can discuss it.
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>> Comments should be sent to www-dom @ w3.org by July 31. Presumably, the
>> group also welcomes data about "silent reviews", f.ex. "I reviewed section
>> N.N and have no comments".
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>> -Thanks, AB
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>> [CR] <http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-dom-20140508/>
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>> [Bugs] <https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?bug_status=
>> UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_
>> status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&
>> bug_status=CLOSED&component=DOM4&list_id=40501&product=
>> HTML%20WG&query_format=advanced>
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>> [Diff] <http://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=http%3A%2F%
>> 2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2F2014%2FCR-dom-20140508%2F&doc2=http%3A%
>> 2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2F2014%2FWD-dom-20140710%2F>
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