Below is a followup on the short discussion we had on October 31 re the
HTML Editing APIs ...
On 11/1/11 10:05 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote:
The DRAFT minutes from the October 31 f2f meeting are in the following
document and copied below:
http://www.w3.org/2011/10/31-webapps-minutes.html
12. [16]Charter/Editing
http://www.w3.org/2011/10/31-webapps-minutes.html#item12
Charter/Editing
ArtB: I know Aryeh was working on Editing
... but he didn't make a commitment
... do we let him continue working in the CG
... do we pick it up now, pick it up later?
ryosuke: i'd like to see it in the charter
ArtB: aryeh felt that having it in a CG to do work forward
... but he didn't object to this WG finalizing it
chaals: in the absence of someone driving it in Web Apps
... I think it would be a bad idea
... especially without the resources
Josh_Soref: How is this any different from the previous charter
item?
<smaug> #whatwg: AryehGregor "Microsoft Corp. has joined the HTML
Editing APIs Community Group"
chaals: I am proposing that we reject Editing APIs under similar
circumstances
... given that there is a CG
... I feel we should let them alone given they already have a CG and
we aren't likely to add much
ryosuke: there's a difference in complexity
... Editing is much more complicated
... I think it will take a couple of years before it's ready
adrianba: Microsoft just joined the CG with the intent of helping it
there
chaals: does anyone propose that we move editing into the WG?
RESOLUTION: We will not move Editing into this WG
The following part of the charter does make the HTML Editing APIs in
scope for WebApps:
[[
http://www.w3.org/2010/webapps/charter/#others
Specifically, because of the close relationship of the WebApps WG and
the HTML WG in terms of participants, market, and community, the WebApps
WG may opt to take on a limited number of specifications which were
initially part of the HTML5 specification that have been split off for
more general use with other languages.
]]
My summary is: although HTML Editing APIs is in scope for WebApps, and
we agreed to use public-webapps for related discussions [1], given no
one has agreed to actively drive the spec in WebApps, we will not
include it as an explicit deliverable in WebApps' charter update. If
anyone disagrees with this summary, please speak up.
-AB
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JulSep/1617.html
