Re: [css3-hyperlinks] Status? from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2014-06-26 (www-style@w3.org from June 2014)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:20:29 -0700
To: "Jens O. Meiert" <jens@meiert.com>
Cc: W3C WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDB91Fw9z012rzxSy1WKd159XuDhkyWrpDhdQJ72cb6gZA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Jens O. Meiert <jens@meiert.com> wrote:
> Also just to confirm, what’s the status of
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-hyperlinks/? Is it indeed dead as marked on
> http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work.en.html, or are there any
> plans to proceed with this? (I need to know to otherwise clean up
> http://meiert.com/en/indices/css-properties/.)
>
> I think we had this a few times (cheers W3C statutes ;) but can we
> mark, remove, or otherwise disable docs like this? :/
>
> Thanks for your help!

Definitely dead.  (Was never alive, actually.)  The spec source never
migrated out of CVS, actually, that's how old it is.  Anything that
lacks an editor's draft is long-dead, as a general rule.

Agree that we should publish an update with an obsoletion notice on it.

~TJ

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