Re: Howto spec

2012-05-24 Thread Robin Berjon
On May 23, 2012, at 20:40 , Anne van Kesteren wrote: how does ReSpec.js use or promote the discouraged particulars? Most specifications (if not all) using ReSpec.js have this problem. I believe that is because it is the default setup. Yup, it's just the default setup. As I've said before,

Re: Howto spec

2012-05-24 Thread Robin Berjon
On May 23, 2012, at 20:30 , Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Dimitri Glazkov dglaz...@chromium.org wrote: Should I be concerned about what seems to be a lively competition between ReSpec and Anolis. Do we need this tussle? Can we not just decide which tool to use?

Re: Howto spec

2012-05-24 Thread Robin Berjon
On May 23, 2012, at 14:45 , Anne van Kesteren wrote: I have made some updates to the howto spec wiki page outlining how you should go about writing a specification, with some emphasis on specifications for APIs. http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Howto_spec In particular the Patterns and Legacy

Re: Howto spec

2012-05-24 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
There is a list called spec-p...@w3.org which is about things to do with making specs. I.e. for editors, in particular. I forwarded some stuff from this thread there - there are other preprocessing systems around, including XML toolsets. I think this stuff used to be documented somewhere,

Re: Howto spec

2012-05-23 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
This is neat! I especially appreciated the Method/Attribute patterns. I will use this. Should I be concerned about what seems to be a lively competition between ReSpec and Anolis. Do we need this tussle? Can we not just decide which tool to use? :DG On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Anne van

Re: Howto spec

2012-05-23 Thread Glenn Adams
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: Hi, I have made some updates to the howto spec wiki page outlining how you should go about writing a specification, with some emphasis on specifications for APIs. http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Howto_spec In

Re: Howto spec

2012-05-23 Thread Glenn Adams
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Dimitri Glazkov dglaz...@chromium.orgwrote: This is neat! I especially appreciated the Method/Attribute patterns. I will use this. Should I be concerned about what seems to be a lively competition between ReSpec and Anolis. Do we need this tussle? Can we not

Re: Howto spec

2012-05-23 Thread Glenn Adams
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Dimitri Glazkov dglaz...@chromium.orgwrote: This is neat! I especially appreciated the Method/Attribute patterns. I will use this. Should I be concerned about what seems to be a lively

Re: Howto spec

2012-05-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Dimitri Glazkov dglaz...@chromium.org wrote: Should I be concerned about what seems to be a lively competition between ReSpec and Anolis. Do we need this tussle? Can we not just decide which tool to use? It's a tradeoff: ReSpec.js pro: * No setup costs

Re: Howto spec

2012-05-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: I would like to see more explanation of some statements under the Legacy DOM-style section, particularly: what is the particular style of defining methods and attributes that is to be discouraged? Added the separation of