On 19 Apr 2012, at 7:48 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> As I understand it, the W3C's publication precedence re normative references 
> for a Proposed Recommendation, is that all W3C normative references must be 
> at CR or a later maturity level.
> 
> With today's publication of a CR of Web IDL [WebIDL-CR], the only W3C 
> normative reference in the Widget Interface Candidate Recommendation [TWI-CR] 
> that is not at CR or later is HTML5.
> 
> Philippe, Ian - my understanding is that if the WG can show its uses of HTML5 
> are restricted to stable parts of the HTML5 spec, the Director will relax 
> this publication precedence i.e. the Widget Interface may be published as a 
> Proposed Recommendation. Is this correct?

This is my expectation:
 https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2011JulSep/0092.html

Ian

> 
> Marcos - would you please enumerate the CR's uses of HTML5 and state whether 
> each usage is to a stable part of HTML5?
> 
> -Thanks, AB
> 
> [TWI-CR] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-widgets-apis-20111213/
> [WebIDL-CR] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-WebIDL-20120419/
> 
> 
> 

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