On 10/10/13 2:12 PM, ext Ted Mielczarek wrote:
Thanks for the nudge! My work on the spec (and the Firefox
implementation) fell by the wayside for many months, but I found some
time to work on my implementation recently. We (Mozilla) are shipping a
very-close-to-spec implementation in Nightly builds, and it's available
behind a preference in our current release (Firefox 24).
I'd actually like to ship our implementation in release soon, I just
have a few minor implementation bugs (with significant impact) to fix as
well as one possible breaking spec change[1]. With those in order I'd be
pretty happy to ship. We'd be shipping unprefixed, as is our new policy.
It's my understanding that Google has been shipping a prefixed
implementation that's also pretty close to the spec for some time now,
but that Scott suffers from the same "Gamepad is not really my full-time
job" problem that I do. He'd be more equipped to talk about this than I
am, certainly.
In terms of feature-completeness I think the spec is basically done.
Aside from that one breaking change I'd like to make I don't think
there's anything else we want to address right now that couldn't be done
in a future release of the spec. We've wanted to keep the scope small
from the beginning and I think we did okay. It definitely needs some
more work (mostly polishing of the text, fixing the existing bugs), but
we could certainly get out a new WD with the most recent text.
Thanks for this update Ted. Scott - please let us know if you have any
additional status to share.
Since 21388 is now Resolved/Fixed, based on what you say above it seems
like the next step should be to have a 1-week "pre-LC call for
comments". Then, assuming no major issues are raised, I would start a
CfC to publish a LCWD.
However, I noticed 4 open bugs [Bugs]. What is the plan for these (f.ex.
are they deferred to the next version)?
One reason groups publish a LCWD is to use it as a signal that broader
review of the spec is desired, and in this case, perhaps we can ask
Marcos to help us reach out to the developer community he mentioned in
[Dev].
-Thanks, ArtB
[Dev]
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-Ted
1. https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21388
