[csswg] overflow-3 and overflow-4 and unleveled URLs

Hey all,



We currently have a problem with our overflow drafts. We’ve marked overflow-4 as the current work, and it therefore inhabits the unleveled spec directory. Unfortunately, it’s still a diff spec. So URLs that pointed to various things in the old spec now go to less-than-useful places in the diff spec.

Specifically, WHATWG had a link to the overflow property itself using the unversioned directory:

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow/#overflow


That anchor doesn’t yet exist in overflow-4, so that URL is no longer cool.

I think that we should (in general, going forward) ensure that anchors from a level X spec are replicated in a level X+1 spec before we declare X+1 the current work and have it take over the unleveled directory.

I think we have two choices on what to do with overflow right now:

A. Update the current overflow-4 draft so that it’s no longer a diff spec, and contains all the appropriate anchors and content from overflow-3.
B. Swap directories around in our repo so that overflow-3 inhabits the unleveled directory.

If I can get a volunteer to do A in a timely fashion, that would be great. If no one volunteers over the next week, I believe we should do B to fix up links until A happens.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Alan

Received on Thursday, 5 October 2017 00:31:01 UTC