Re: how to organize the DOM specs [Was: CfC: publish new WD of DOM Core]

2011-08-29 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: The point is that if it's just a chapter in a larger spec, how do I know that there isn't other important information in the larger spec that I have to read in order to get a understanding of the full feature. The same

Re: how to organize the DOM specs [Was: CfC: publish new WD of DOM Core]

2011-08-25 Thread Robin Berjon
On Aug 22, 2011, at 11:47 , James Graham wrote: I don't really understand your point here. If you used the smaller document presumably you could just have easily have read the relevant chapter from the larger document. [...snip...] Small specs encourage people - including the spec editors -

Re: how to organize the DOM specs [Was: CfC: publish new WD of DOM Core]

2011-08-25 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 22 août 2011 à 05:47, James Graham a écrit : Small specs encourage people - including the spec editors - to perceive that features are more self-contained than they really are Note that in some circumstances it might have some benefits in forcing orthogonality. Our tools and cultural

Re: how to organize the DOM specs [Was: CfC: publish new WD of DOM Core]

2011-08-25 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:47 AM, James Graham jgra...@opera.com wrote: On 08/22/2011 11:22 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/ I *always* used the much smaller document that used to be available here:

Re: how to organize the DOM specs [Was: CfC: publish new WD of DOM Core]

2011-08-22 Thread James Graham
On 08/22/2011 11:22 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/ I *always* used the much smaller document that used to be available here: www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/ I don't really understand your point here. If you used the smaller

RE: how to organize the DOM specs [Was: CfC: publish new WD of DOM Core]

2011-08-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Adrian Bateman wrote: At Microsoft, we also prefer smaller more specific specifications for all the same reasons that it makes sense to engineer software in smaller, more modular parts. * It is easier to implement and test smaller modules. Developers find it easier

RE: how to organize the DOM specs [Was: CfC: publish new WD of DOM Core]

2011-08-16 Thread Adrian Bateman
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:29 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote: [ Topic changed to how to organize the group's DOM specs ... ] Hi Adrian, Anne, Doug, Jacob, All, The WG is chartered to do maintenance on the DOM specs so a question for us is how to organize the DOM specs, in particular, whether