- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:08:06 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Robin Berjon wrote: >>It is common industry practice to use higher version numbers to indicate >>later or more advanced specifications. Such forward references, >>normative or not, are confusing to at least his reader. Please change >>your draft so that it is not confusing. > > There are more than half a dozen of references to future versions of > "the specification" in http://w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20050413 > so is the comment that references to CSS3 should be replaced by re- > ferences to some arbitrary future version of CSS? How would that be > less confusing exactly? You can find all sorts of practices good and bad in any number of other specifications, however I fail to see how this is germane to the topic, unless you would be so kind as to explain in which way the WD-SVGMobile12-20050413 is a paragon of virtue in specification writing. That being said, I do indeed find it much less confusing to read discussion of potential future work than existing next generation documents since in one case only a roadmap is exposed while in the other one wonders why one is reading or implementing this specification when ones that appear to be more advanced are available. -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/
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