- From: Williams, Stuart \(HP Labs, Bristol\) <skw@hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:29:55 -0000
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TAG Weekly Teleconference
5 Feb 2007
Attendees
Present
Raman, Stuart, Norm, noah, Rhys, Vincent, DaveO, DanC, TimBL,
Henry
Regrets
Chair
Stuart
Scribe
DaveO
Contents
* [2]Topics
1. [3]Adminsitrivia
2. [4]Transition
3. [5]passwords in the clear
4. [6]tagsoupintegration [09:23]
5. [7]elaborated infoset [10:21]
* [8]Summary of Action Items
_________________________________________________________
Adminsitrivia
approved minutes of last week [09:08]
<DanC> RESOLVED: to approve
[9]http://www.w3.org/2007/01/30-tagmem-minutes.html as a true record
[9] http://www.w3.org/2007/01/30-tagmem-minutes.html
RESOLUTION: approved minutes of Jan 30 approved
dan: openID and SAML are interesting topics for future agenda
[09:09]
noah: paper submitted and accepted for enterprise of web services
workshop [09:10]
... invited to present so I'll prep slides
stuart: regrets for Feb 12th [09:11]
next week scribe: Noah
Transition
stuart: transition of TAG, things to think about [09:13]
vincent: working on some of my open action items [09:14]
<noah> +1 to what Dan said. [09:15]
dan: if stuart has any questions, I suggest bringing them up.
... but I'm against going through the whole list
<noah> I might be a bit more willing to have group skim, but would
be opposed to detailed review of all issues as a use of our shared
group time.
Norm: namespace-8, let's finish
stuart: versioning
dan: keep versioning high priority [09:18]
<DanC> (I took an action re urns and registries too; apologies, no
progress)
dave: also URNsRegistries [09:19]
raman: how long is transition period?
stuart: while we have them around, we keep flogging them. [09:20]
passwords in the clear
<DanC> (mez's text
[10]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2007Jan/att-0038/pas
swordsInTheClear-52Mez.htm ) [09:21]
[10]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2007Jan/att-0038/passwordsIn
TheClear-52Mez.htm
<timbl> .me notes today was booked out for me many weeks ago.
noah: if this is going to go on for a long time, give somebody else
some ownership
tagsoupintegration [09:23]
timbl: validation seen as a repository of truth [09:30]
... w3c has controlled specs via validation
... validator needs to be revisited
... validation could be what w3c, or even TAG, of what is acceptable
or recommended [09:31]
<DanC> (I agree the validator is a big part of the story; I'm coming
up with more and more justification for budgeting validator work
against the TAG... yeah... what tim's saying.hmm.)
timbl: do you say "no quotes, die, reload", vs advisory [09:32]
stuart: what does TAG vs WG do? [09:33]
timbl: two philosophies: 1) stick things in a some stuff may become
stds; 2) stick with using namespaces
... how to cleanly develop these things, probs in either case
<noah> I think CDF adds an extensibility story to XHTML, no?
<raman> interesting ... the only thing the tagsoup and xhtml folks
would agree on is probably "we dont need RDF:-)" [09:34]
<DanC> maybe, noah, but if they [CDF] have, I haven't seen it.
timbl: TAG crosses many different groups, how do you take all these
things and evolve them.
<Zakim> DanC, you wanted to think out loud about encouraging
validator dev
dan: validator is close to TAG's work. [09:35]
... don't want html and css validators, want just a validator.
... shorten feedback loop between authors and validator developers
[09:36]
... unicorn project..
<Zakim> noah, you wanted to talk about role of WG
dan: maybe we just need some detailed time on this..
noah: help them to fish rather than do the fishing.
... TAG should set forth principles, ie self-description
... TAG should help w3c get WG's going. [09:39]
<Zakim> Norm, you wanted to point out that I don't see how the
validator helps by itself. I need to be able to read something that
tells me the right answers,
norm: answers need to be written down.
raman: tag shouldn't maintain validator
... today people point their browser at something and see if it
works [09:40]
<noah> I think rather than getting credibility by having a fraction
of users go to our validators, it's far more effective to get the
sort of credibility that will cause the browser vendors to implement
the "right" answers.
raman: biggest success would be to have browser do validation.
<noah> That means the answers we advocate have to be practical.
<Zakim> timbl, you wanted to say that the browser could fix it in
View Source
timbl: actually, I think that people when they do the, they also do
view source
... whenever you do a save as or view source, it offers the cleaned
up version
<noah> Suggest one would need to separate: view source from "view
corrected source". I think there are a bunch of drawbacks to making
it hard to see the "real" source when that's what you want.
<noah> Tim's answer of highlighting diffs is fine, as long as you
can reconstruct the original too. [09:43]
<noah> I do view source :-)
timbl: imagine if you did view source and it colour coded. whenever
you copied the source, you'll get the cleaned up
raman: people don't do view source anymore because it's too
complicated
timbl: my son does it, and I think a lot of people still do this
<noah> My son too.
<Vincent> my sons too
timbl: and if it's generated, then it's even less excusable that it
doesn't validate
dan: stick cases such as the forms and table nesting "documented
hack" in the test suite
raman: people do open table, insert data, close table [09:45]
<Stuart> ack vincent [09:46]
timbl: how about forms have id tags, and always refer to forms via
ids rather than the tags
vincent: many pages "near" him are out of his control and not valid.
... many of the content management tools, like blogs and wikis, etc.
produce just garbage [09:47]
<Norm> If only we had either a carrot or a stick...
raman: chicken and egg
... some times content produces for old bugs and not necessary but
sometimes the browser won't fix it. [09:48]
<Stuart> ack dave [09:49]
<DanC> DO: I hear TV pointing out problems with lots of suggestions,
and wonder if TV has any suggestions going forward. [09:51]
raman: you run into the browser issue right away, then you run into
legacy issue. [09:52]
<Stuart> ack DanC [09:53]
<Zakim> DanC, you wanted to observe that TV clearly has more details
swapped in than I do, and to ask if he has suggestions, and to
re-raise the "free to a good home" possibility
dave: was hoping to hear ideas for what we could do..
danc: thinks he hears TV say I don't hear the answer, but TAG should
do more work. [09:54]
raman: architecturally the TAG needs to answer the question: should
tagsoupintegration exist on the web, and then how does it coexist
with structured markup.
<DanC> do, raman is re-iterating 3 options from HT's summary
[11]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2006Oct/0062.html
[09:55]
[11] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2006Oct/0062.html
raman: henry said it well, tagsoup exists and come up with strategy
for migrating toward structured markup 2) structured good; 3)
tagsoup /structured co-exists
... lean towards co-existence and a strategy for moving towards
structured [09:56]
timbl: there have been many extremes, step function for moving
... meet halfway on each one.
... for example people that want to omit quotes, and that's in xml.
[09:58]
... we're looking at each thing separately, and looking at the
benefits of moving in the direction we want
... question of which battles. eg, namespaces and microformats.
[09:59]
<noah> I have mixed feelings about calling a a format in which
attributes need not be quoted "XML", because the major selling point
of the "XML Brand" is that the expectations for interop with
deployed parsers are very high. Don't want to break that. I do think
having a sort of "nearly XML" with known, stable transform to and
from is a fine idea. I just don't want to quite brand it as XML.
timbl: namespaces very important
imbl: microformats can't cope with scale of evolution that we should
have [10:00]
<noah> +1 The importance of namespaces for supporting
self-description and as a basis for distributed innovation is the
sort of principle the TAG itself should be driving.
timbl: the battle for namespaces is different level than quoted
attributes
<DanC> TV: yes, (1) consistent tree, and (2) namespaces are my main
things. quotes are in the noise. [10:01]
<Zakim> noah, you wanted to say success is bringing the browsers
along
raman: problem is coupling these things, can't do namespaces unless
you do xml and you can't do xml unless you have attributes
noah: there was a tone to the discussion that "oh yeah there's the
browsers"
... I think it should be the other way around [10:02]
... success is fostering discussion that happens in the browsers
enefits
noah: path forward has to include browsers [10:03]
<Zakim> Norm, you wanted to ask if we really believe that fixing
quotes on attributes would really help
norm: every time this issue comes up, quotes on attributes
... I wonder that this level of syntactic fixup is really a big part
of this issue. [10:04]
... we could write 10,15 rules on this [10:05]
<DanC> (TV has given examples of how it's deeper than that, indeed.)
<raman> Agree with Norm that fixing quotes on attrs is in the noise;
I blieve myself and timbl were saying the same
<noah> If Norm is right that the problems are really deeper browser
dependencies, then I wonder how much mileage we get out of Tim's
proposal for a self-correcting View Source? Seems like that would
deal with the minor issues more successfully than the deep ones.
[10:06]
<noah> I could be wrong about that.
<DanC> (the 10 or 15 rules evidently cost 1747 lines of python. 1/2
;-)
ht: I don't think that the xml syntax issues aren't the big deal.
... I think it's more the unclosed tags, if anything
<noah> I suspect there's also a perceived convenience/DWIM issues.
Not sure how big a deal that is.
ht: in the examples that hixsie gave, what happens when you pollute
your xml with bad html and plug that into good xhtml
... spent some time on formal languages in that area.
... there is some work out there, but there was nothing that covered
all the cases we came up with
<DanC> ([12]http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ )
[12] http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/
ht: john cowan's approach was the last thing standing that might get
to some consensus [10:08]
... if you cannot live with "here is a large collection of
semi-formal english", then i want to go back and look at john's
tagsoup
raman: at least it's in a ruleset for program use [10:09]
<DanC> (I started looking at cowan's tables in discussion with
#whatwg folks, but only scratched the surface. I should update
[13]http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTMLAsSheAreSpoke )
[13] http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTMLAsSheAreSpoke
raman: raggett's tidy used to have c code, which got migrated to
java
danc: talk to the folks who worked on Access [10:10]
... maybe at f2f
noah: politics to who we invite.. [10:11]
(some discussion about individuals) [10:12]
stuart: any comm team in japan? [10:15]
<noah> Maybe the right thing would be for someone (Rhys) to approach
Tommy (name?) informally and ask what would be the most effective
way to pursue such contacts.
<noah> I would welcome some more formal contact with HTML 5. Not all
of us take the trouble to participate directly with WHAT WG, etc.
<Rhys> The person from Access is Tommy Kamada who is Access CTO and
their AC Rep [10:18]
<noah> I think it's appropriate to make the liaison with HTML 5
community at least more semi-formal, perhaps formal.
stuart: we should have some metings with the various groups.
... and how about the chartering process? [10:19]
ht: question is really, what is the architectural space the 1,2,*
WGs are working in, and how can help [10:20]
<noah> I think the TAG can help in commenting on the W3C WG
structure insofar as our technical insight contributes to an artful
decision as to whether this work seems to admit working in separate
groups or one, for example.
<ht> HST gives apologies for next week (sorry if that tips the
balance)
elaborated infoset [10:21]
ht: I suggest adjourning this item for 2 weeks, as timbl sent
regrets [10:22]
meeting adjourned
<noah>
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[10:26]
[14] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/scribe/scribedoc.htm
Summary of Action Items
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