- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:15:57 +0100
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mar 3, 2011, at 22:19, fantasai wrote: > On 03/03/2011 11:24 AM, Sylvain Galineau wrote: >> [Peter Linss:] >>> On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Peter Moulder wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:48:49AM +0000, Linss, Peter wrote: >>>>> CSS 2.1 has been in the pipeline for far too long, many other specs >>>>> normatively depend on it and it needs to be a REC to unblock progress >>>>> in other areas. >>>> >>>> What other specs are those, and what bits of CSS2.1 do they depend on? >>> >>> How about every other CSS module? EPUB? There are many others, listing >>> them isn't the point, there are dependencies, period. We need to move 2.1 >>> forward and stop futzing with it. It'll never be perfect, that's what >>> errata are for. >> >> Quick example: CSS3 Selectors remains PR until CSS2.1 reaches REC. CSS3 >> Backgrounds& Borders is another well-known module that could find itself >> in the same situation. > > I doubt CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders will make it to PR anytime soon, > as it doesn't have a test suite. But Selectors, Namespaces, and Color > are held up on CSS2.1. And that's only within W3C. The official "status" > of CSS2.1 prevents it from being used as a reference for standards > outside W3C -- such organizations are referencing CSS2.0, because it > is supposedly more "stable". Also within W3C, one of the MathML specs, "A MathML for CSS profile," has been waiting since August: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PR-mathml-for-css-20100810/ Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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