- From: Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:54:26 +0100
- To: "Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
- Message-ID: <546c6c1c0811031054h7c5468ffwc327e0b3692127d8@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Doug, Thanks for this quick reply I'm fine with the reply on the fact that there is no hard dependency on CSS 2 only features But it would be better if there is a warning in two ways : 1) that CSS 2 is not maintained any more 2) that CSS 2.1 will replace CSS 2 as soon as it becomes a REC Regards, Mohamed On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > Hi, Mohamed- > > Innovimax SARL wrote (on 11/3/08 3:07 AM): > > > > My concern is more or less that "to be released" CSS 2.1 > > implementations, would have trouble to keep in sync with SVG Tiny 1.2 > > implementations since SVG is relying on CSS 2 (which has substantial > > difference with 2.1). > > > > Probably a good thing is to identify dependency on "CSS 2 only" behavior > > and to provide a evolution plan to CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 features for future > > release of SVG specs > > Having reviewed the SVG and CSS specs, the SVG WG doesn't believe there > are any significant differences in the parts of CSS 2 and CSS 2.1 that > we depend upon, so a normative reference to CSS 2 should not constrain > any CSS 2.1 implementation. So, it's not that we have a dependency on > CSS 2 vs. CSS 2.1, but rather that we don't have a strict dependency on > either one. Since the Process Document does not allow normative > dependencies on specs less advanced along the Rec track, we have no > choice but to reference CSS 2 until CSS 2.1 is more mature. > > Going forward, the SVG WG does intend to align with CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 > instead, so we don't anticipate any conflicts there as well. > > I hope that this satisfies your comment. Please let us know immediately > in either case, as we intend to make our transition call tomorrow. > > Regards- > -Doug > -- Innovimax SARL Consulting, Training & XML Development 9, impasse des Orteaux 75020 Paris Tel : +33 9 52 475787 Fax : +33 1 4356 1746 http://www.innovimax.fr RCS Paris 488.018.631 SARL au capital de 10.000 €
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