On 11/01/2007, at 11:53 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Dean Jackson wrote:
This comment comes from the W3C Staff.
Please remove the references to the HTML5 specification, at least
in the
version published by the W3C. To be clear, this is not a negative
comment on HTML5 -- the reference is ok, but a W3C specification
should
not rely on normative behaviour described in an unstable
specification.
For example:
Security contexts are (or will be) described in the HTML5
specification.
[HTML5]
Hopefully new work on HTML at the W3C can allow such a reference
in the
near future.
I have changed the reference to be an informative reference. You are
absolutely correct that it is inapproriate for the specification to
normatively refer to incomplete specifications.
Thanks. This obviously satisfies my request and I hope we can
soon refer to the material normatively.
Dean
