Re: Draft recharter proposal

2016-07-30 Thread Chaals McCathie Nevile

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 18:29:44 +0200, Olli Pettay  wrote:


On 07/29/2016 06:13 PM, Chaals McCathie Nevile wrote:

Hi folks,

our charter expires at the end of September. I've produced a draft  
version of a new charter, for people to comment on:

http://w3c.github.io/charter-html/group-charter.html

Feel free to raise comments as issues:  
https://github.com/w3c/charter-html/issues/new


As per the change section:

New deliverables:
Microdata

Removed as deliverables:
Streams; URL; XHR1

Marked as deliverables to be taken up if incubation suggests likely  
success:
Background Synchronisation; Filesystem API; FindText API; HTML Import;  
Input Methods; Packaging; Quota API



Given what has been happening with directory upload stuff recently,  
Filesystem stuff is a bit controversial.
(Gecko and Edge implementing https://wicg.github.io/entries-api/, or  
something quite similar. The draft doesn't quite follow browsers.

  Entries API is a subset of what Blink has been shipping.)
But I think some way better API than the old Chrome-only API should be  
implemented for Filesystem in general, and at that point also

better stuff for directory upload, *and* for directory download.
I'd consider the callback based, awkward to use Blink API a legacy thing.


Filesystem is a bit controversial - there have been a number of proposals  
over most of a decade now. The idea is that if we have one that matches  
something browsers do and want to continue with, and we maintain it, that  
would be a helpful thing to do.


I thought it is pretty much agreed that HTML Import is deprecated, or  
something to not to do now.


At any rate, I believe there is not enough apparent interest to rate it as  
a definite work item.


Both of those are in a section of things the group *may* do, if there is  
reason to expect success, but I think that could be made much clearer in  
the document.


Microdata has very wide ongoing usage, and it would be helpful to have  
something clearer than the current W3C Note - which includes things  
that don't
work - for people to refer to. So I'm proposing to do the editing,  
along with Dan Brickley from Google, and to work roughly on the basis  
we use in
HTML of specifying what actually works, rather than adding in what we  
would like.



So the only implementation of HTML Microdata API in browsers was removed  
recently
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=909633 because exposing the  
API caused web pages to break.


Yes, removing the API from the spec is one of the things we expect to do.  
Browsers generally do nothing with microdata as far as I know, which is  
fine. It's not particularly directed at them anyway. It's used by search  
engines, and put into massive numbers of web sites for that purpose.


cheers, and thanks for the comments.

Chaals

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Re: Draft recharter proposal

2016-07-29 Thread Olli Pettay

On 07/29/2016 06:13 PM, Chaals McCathie Nevile wrote:

Hi folks,

our charter expires at the end of September. I've produced a draft version of a 
new charter, for people to comment on:
http://w3c.github.io/charter-html/group-charter.html

Feel free to raise comments as issues: 
https://github.com/w3c/charter-html/issues/new

As per the change section:

New deliverables:
Microdata

Removed as deliverables:
Streams; URL; XHR1

Marked as deliverables to be taken up if incubation suggests likely success:
Background Synchronisation; Filesystem API; FindText API; HTML Import; Input 
Methods; Packaging; Quota API



Given what has been happening with directory upload stuff recently, Filesystem 
stuff is a bit controversial.
(Gecko and Edge implementing https://wicg.github.io/entries-api/, or something 
quite similar. The draft doesn't quite follow browsers.
 Entries API is a subset of what Blink has been shipping.)
But I think some way better API than the old Chrome-only API should be 
implemented for Filesystem in general, and at that point also
better stuff for directory upload, *and* for directory download.
I'd consider the callback based, awkward to use Blink API a legacy thing.


I thought it is pretty much agreed that HTML Import is deprecated, or something 
to not to do now.




Microdata has very wide ongoing usage, and it would be helpful to have 
something clearer than the current W3C Note - which includes things that don't
work - for people to refer to. So I'm proposing to do the editing, along with 
Dan Brickley from Google, and to work roughly on the basis we use in
HTML of specifying what actually works, rather than adding in what we would 
like.



So the only implementation of HTML Microdata API in browsers was removed 
recently
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=909633 because exposing the API 
caused web pages to break.




-Olli





cheers

Chaals






Draft recharter proposal

2016-07-29 Thread Chaals McCathie Nevile

Hi folks,

our charter expires at the end of September. I've produced a draft version  
of a new charter, for people to comment on:  
http://w3c.github.io/charter-html/group-charter.html


Feel free to raise comments as issues:  
https://github.com/w3c/charter-html/issues/new


As per the change section:

New deliverables:
Microdata

Removed as deliverables:
Streams; URL; XHR1

Marked as deliverables to be taken up if incubation suggests likely  
success:
Background Synchronisation; Filesystem API; FindText API; HTML Import;  
Input Methods; Packaging; Quota API


Microdata has very wide ongoing usage, and it would be helpful to have  
something clearer than the current W3C Note - which includes things that  
don't work - for people to refer to. So I'm proposing to do the editing,  
along with Dan Brickley from Google, and to work roughly on the basis we  
use in HTML of specifying what actually works, rather than adding in what  
we would like.


cheers

Chaals

--
Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
 cha...@yandex-team.ru - - - Find more at http://yandex.com