- From: Fuqiao Xue <xfq@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:16:04 +0800
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Cc: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, Rossen Atanassov <Rossen.Atanassov@microsoft.com>, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, W3C www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On 2018-09-06 23:49, Florian Rivoal wrote: > Hi all, > > PLH and I were talking about obsoleting and superseding stuff, and I > checked the status on the CSS-WG's Notes. > https://www.w3.org/TR/?tag=css&status=note > > One that I was surprised to find there is the CSS Profile > (https://www.w3.org/TR/css-print/). I thought we had retired it, along > with all other profiles, which are indeed no longer showing in that > index page. > > I have not yet been able to locate the resolution where we decided to > do so, but the text in the 2018 CSS Snapshot ED (still pending > publication, sorry for procrastinating) agrees with my memory: > >> 2.2. CSS Profiles >> >> Not all implementations will implement all functionality defined in >> CSS. >> >> In the past, the Working Group published a few Profiles, which were >> meant to define the minimal subset of CSS that various classes of User >> Agents were expected to support. >> >> This effort has been discontinued, as the Working Group was not >> finding it effective or useful, and the profiles previously defined >> are now unmaintained. > > Did we carve out an exception that I'm failing to remember for the > Print Profile, or did it just slip through the cracks where we retired > the others? > > Speaking of which, I'll note that other profiles > (https://www.w3.org/TR/css-mobile/ & https://www.w3.org/TR/css-tv/) > while correctly missing from the TR index page, do not carry any > indication inside the document that they are obsolete either. > > Regardless of what happened previous, I think all 3 profiles should be > fully obsoleted. From the minutes[1] I guess it slipped through the cracks. All three specs' ED has obsoletion notes, but css-print's TR version does not have an obsoletion note. Moreover, in the "current work" page[2], CSS Print Profile is listed as "Completed" rather than "Abandoned". [1] https://logs.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/2017-02-08/#e771462 [2] https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work.en.html
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