Hello
Just to be perfectly clear here...
I do not think we should phrase document statuses according to some
external needs, because in this case we may end up with phrasing fitting
Glenns needs, but it may not be fitting other legislatures or other
companies internal needs and then what?
Brona
On 25.1.2012 10:10, Bronislav Klučka wrote:
Hello,
since when is obsolete the same as work in progress?
How does HTML4 (can be considered obsolete) the same as HTML5(in
progress)? It only means that new features are added to HTML5 not to
HTML 4 and any error in HTML 4 is ignored...
This discussion is about using word "obsolete" in simple sentence,
that is clear to developers or usage of language that would be more
comfortable to politicians and high management, some complicated
sentence, that is more "politically correct". Again the question is:
should we care?
Should W3C creates new mechanism to reflect current speed of progress
instead of bound progress by decade and 1/2 old processes?
Should W3C creates some guidelines for understanding current state of
work for external entities, that those have to understand that specs
can become obsolete, that people can be explicitly discouraged from
implementing them and is can happen anytime to any spec without any
control of such external entities?
On 24.1.2012 20:33, Glenn Adams wrote:
The problem is that the proposal (as I understand it) is to insert
something like:
"DOM2 (a REC) is obsolete. Use DOM4 (a work in progress)."
This addition is tantamount (by the reading of some) to demoting the
status of DOM2 to "a work in progress".
2012/1/24 Bronislav Klučka <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Hello,
I do understand the objection, but how relevant should it be here?
If some regulation/law dictates that work must follow e.g. DOM 2,
than it does not matter that it's obsolete... The law takes
precedence here regardless of status of the document. Technically
in such case one don't need to worry himself about any progress or
status of such document or specification.
On 23.1.2012 19:06, Glenn Adams wrote:
I object to adding such notice until all of the proposed
replacement specs reach REC status.
G.
Brona
Brona
