> On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:47:45 +0200, Doug Schepers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 9/4/11 9:41 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> I do not think that is appropriate given that unlike all our other > >> specifications it does not use Web IDL > > > > DOM3 Events does provide Web IDL definitions for the interfaces [1]; > > it simply doesn't make them normative, because Web IDL is not yet stable. > > > > Should the Web IDL spec reach a stable state in time, we can make the > > Web IDL definitions normative. > > All our specifications use Web IDL normatively. I do not see why DOM Level > 3 Events has to be special here. > > > >> and we still have not settled how > >> to deal with exceptions on the web platform. > > > > DOM3 Events doesn't change anything about this. Should a later spec > > (such as DOM 4 / DOM Core) change how exceptions are handled, and if > > implementers agree with that change, we can simply issue an erratum > > for that in DOM3 Events, and publish an updated draft. This is a > > minor and common issue... that later specifications supersede previous ones. > > The File API specification has a warning in the specification about this > changing. > I think at a minimum that should be stated. > > > These were just two issues that came to mind though, I still have outstanding > Last Call comments, as do other people.
All of the Last Call issues formally raised in our Tracker have been addressed as indicated in our Disposition of Comments [1]. If there are outstanding issues, then they're likely threads on www-dom that got lost in the shuffle. Kindly, can you be more explicit and enumerate the outstanding issues you're awaiting responses for? Thanks! [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/DOM-Level-3-Events/dc.html
