Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-26 Thread Anne van Kesteren
I agree with Ian's other observations/comments. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: What I don't really understand, though, is why any of this is needed at all. What value is the W3C adding by creating these forks? In the end (dunno when that will be), patent

Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-26 Thread Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu
(12/11/26 21:25), Anne van Kesteren wrote: I agree with Ian's other observations/comments. I suppose that doesn't include (12/11/24 5:22), Ian Hickson wrote: Also, the document asks for feedback on the public-webapps list, but that fragments feedback on the spec; the WHATWG copy instead

Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-26 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu kangh...@oupeng.com wrote: (12/11/24 5:22), Ian Hickson wrote: Also, the document asks for feedback on the public-webapps list, but that fragments feedback on the spec; the WHATWG copy instead suggests feedback go to the WHATWG list. ?

Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-26 Thread Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu
(12/11/26 22:11), Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu wrote: (12/11/26 21:25), Anne van Kesteren wrote: I agree with Ian's other observations/comments. I suppose that doesn't include (12/11/24 5:22), Ian Hickson wrote: Also, the document asks for feedback on the public-webapps list, but that fragments

Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Anne van Kesteren wrote: I agree with Ian's other observations/comments. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: What I don't really understand, though, is why any of this is needed at all. What value is the W3C adding by creating these

Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-25 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
Warning. This discussion seems by and large non-technical bike-shedding for political purposes, which I have tried to stay away from. But some important points are drowning in rhetorical over the several threads that have dealt with this "issue".In particular I note consensus that we don't want

[admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-23 Thread Arthur Barstow
[ Sorry for the delayed response, I was choking on some turkey ... ] Here's what I did for the URL spec re the boilerplate to help address the attribution issue re Anne and WHATWG: [[ http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html This Version:

Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-23 Thread Glenn Adams
Is Anne the *sole* author? Did the WG or others not contribute any text or suggested text to the spec? It seems like a bit of a slippery slope to attempt to designate a sole author for any W3C product. You might want to check with the pubs team on this matter. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM,

Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Arthur Barstow wrote: Here's what I did for the URL spec re the boilerplate to help address the attribution issue re Anne and WHATWG: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html [...] That's pretty good, though the Status of this Document boilerplate other

Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-23 Thread Glenn Adams
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: What I don't really understand, though, is why any of this is needed at all. What value is the W3C adding by creating these forks? The problem as I see it is that the WHATWG documents are living documents and never final per

Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

2012-11-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Glenn Adams wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: What I don't really understand, though, is why any of this is needed at all. What value is the W3C adding by creating these forks? The problem as I see it is that the WHATWG