- From: Fuqiao Xue <xfq@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 14:39:39 +0800
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Cc: Philippe Le Hégaret <plh@w3.org>, Rossen Atanassov <Rossen.Atanassov@microsoft.com>, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, W3C www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
Hi Florian, > On Sep 7, 2018, at 2:36 PM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote: > >> On Sep 7, 2018, at 13:16, Fuqiao Xue <xfq@w3.org> wrote: >> >> 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 "ComÂpleted" rather than "Abandoned". > > Seems to me that https://drafts.csswg.org/css-tv/ 's ED is also lacking the obsoletion notice. So we should add it, republish all 3 on TR to get the notice there, mark the Print Profile as Abandonned on the current work page, and exclude it from the TR index page. > "At this time, the CSS Working Group does not envisage further work on this specification and does not plan to propose it as a W3C Recommendation." This sentence in the Status section looks like obsoletion notice to me. Are you suggesting that we need to make it clearer? Thanks, Fuqiao
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