- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 05:22:29 -0400
- To: Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- CC: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 10/09/2014 05:06 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote: > From: Sam Ruby [mailto:rubys@intertwingly.net] > >> I appreciate that you have other things to do; meanwhile what would >> you suggest for people who do have time to contribute and would >> very much like to see the specification more accurately reflect >> what works? > > I can't speak for Anne, but personally, my strategy would be: > > 1. Figure out what modifications it would take to the parsing > algorithm to make your hot pink rows into pale green or gold. Unless > they are *exceedingly* complicated, I imagine Anne would accept a > pull request for those. On 10/09/2014 05:07 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote: >>> I appreciate that you have other things to do; meanwhile what >> would you suggest for people who do have time to contribute and >> would very much like to see the specification more accurately >> reflect what works? > > Please send Pull Requests. Lots of eyes watching the spec and lots of > us are happy to review changes. On 10/10/2014 03:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> > wrote: >> I appreciate that you have other things to do; meanwhile what would >> you suggest for people who do have time to contribute and would >> very much like to see the specification more accurately reflect >> what works? > > It sounds like you are asserting that a change to the specification > is what's needed here, which is different from the conclusion that I > reached. I have researched these test failures before and for each > them at the time I roughly knew why each implementation was doing > what it was doing. And then based on that I decided whether the > specification needed adjustment or not. Obviously that is a series > of judgment calls and for particularly hairy cases I've asked for > input. However, I've done this trick of defining something that's > already implemented in non-interoperable fashion by multiple user > agents and then getting them to converge several times. And in my > experience at some point the attempt to convergence needs to start to > get the feedback that can finish the specification. I'll note that these inputs are not consistent. - Sam Ruby
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