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- # Session Start: Fri Dec 21 00:00:00 2007
- # Session Ident: #html-wg
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- # [00:57] <DanC> RRSAgent, pointer?
- # [00:57] <RRSAgent> See http://www.w3.org/2007/12/20-html-wg-irc#T23-56-15
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- # [00:57] <DanC> Zakim, this will be HTML
- # [00:57] <Zakim> ok, DanC; I see HTML_WG()7:00PM scheduled to start in 4 minutes
- # [00:57] <Lachy> Hi
- # [00:57] <DanC> agenda + Convene HTML WG teleconference of 2007-12-21T00:00UTC
- # [00:57] * Zakim notes agendum 1 added
- # [00:58] <DanC> hi Lachy
- # [00:58] <DanC> agenda + ISSUE-19 html5-spec release
- # [00:58] * Zakim notes agendum 2 added
- # [00:59] <DanC> agenda + overlap with HTTP; new issue?
- # [00:59] * Zakim notes agendum 3 added
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- # [00:59] <DanC> agenda + ISSUE-7 video-codecs
- # [00:59] * Zakim notes agendum 4 added
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- # [01:00] <DanC> agenda + Web Developer's Guide to HTML5, ACTION-34
- # [01:00] * Zakim notes agendum 5 added
- # [01:00] <Zakim> HTML_WG()7:00PM has now started
- # [01:01] <Zakim> +??P0
- # [01:01] <MikeSmith> Zakim, ??P0 is me
- # [01:01] <Zakim> +MikeSmith; got it
- # [01:01] * DanC Zakim, call DanC-BOS
- # [01:01] * Zakim ok, DanC; the call is being made
- # [01:01] <Zakim> +DanC
- # [01:01] <Lachy> how long do you expect this telcon to go for?
- # [01:01] <Lachy> Zakim, passcode
- # [01:01] <Zakim> I don't understand 'passcode', Lachy
- # [01:01] <DanC> 30 or 04 min
- # [01:01] <Lachy> Zakim, passcode?
- # [01:01] <Zakim> the conference code is 4865 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), Lachy
- # [01:01] <DanC> I'm expected someplace at 7pm, and it'll take me 15min to get there
- # [01:02] <DanC> Zakim, take up item 1
- # [01:02] <Zakim> agendum 1. "Convene HTML WG teleconference of 2007-12-21T00:00UTC" taken up [from DanC]
- # [01:02] <MikeSmith> RRSAgent, please draft minutes
- # [01:02] <RRSAgent> I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2007/12/21-html-wg-minutes.html MikeSmith
- # [01:02] <DanC> regrets+ Marcin_Hanclik
- # [01:03] <oedipus> GJR is having PC problems which require sighted assistance which i have for the present -- i'll be listening to IRC and can call in if necessary / when done
- # [01:04] <Zakim> +Doug_Schepers
- # [01:04] <MikeSmith> oedipus - always good to have on the phone as well iaf you can
- # [01:04] <DanC> we're below critical mass, so far. Lachy, are you calling in?
- # [01:04] <Lachy> maybe
- # [01:04] <DanC> Lachy, can you update the due date of http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/actions/34 in any case?
- # [01:04] <Lachy> If I call, I can only call from a mobile, which is expensive, so I don't want to call for too long
- # [01:04] <DanC> we can prolly get our business done by IRC
- # [01:05] <MikeSmith> IRC is fine for me too
- # [01:05] <DanC> Zakim, next item
- # [01:05] <Zakim> agendum 2. "ISSUE-19 html5-spec release" taken up [from DanC]
- # [01:05] <oedipus> mike(tm)smith - thanks, if you need a quorum, i can call and put you on mute, although my speech synthesizer drives my sighted assistant crazy and she doesn't deal with multiple aural streams all that well...
- # [01:05] <DanC> -> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Dec/0234.html January 22 publication date
- # [01:05] <DanC> so that's the news on spec release
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- # [01:06] <Zakim> + +47.40.4.aaaa
- # [01:06] <DanC> oh... also: Chris Wilson and I talked about the form of the question we'll put in early Jan: it'll be a numerical thing... something like: if we get 50 "yes" responses and less than 1/4 no votes, the question carries
- # [01:06] <oedipus> GJR: at User Agent Accessibility Guidelines WG call took an action item to review the first public draft for UA (http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA) -- with especial attention to UA conformance
- # [01:07] <shepazu> Zakim, +47.40.4.aaaa is Lachy
- # [01:07] <Zakim> +Lachy; got it
- # [01:07] <DanC> Zakim, next item
- # [01:07] <Zakim> agendum 3. "overlap with HTTP; new issue?" taken up [from DanC]
- # [01:08] <DanC> ACTION: Dan to consider a new requirements issue about the overlap with HTTP
- # [01:08] * trackbot-ng noticed an ACTION. Trying to create it.
- # [01:08] <trackbot-ng> Created ACTION-41 - Consider a new requirements issue about the overlap with HTTP [on Dan Connolly - due 2007-12-28].
- # [01:08] * RRSAgent records action 12
- # [01:08] <DanC> Zakim, next item
- # [01:08] <Zakim> agendum 3 was just opened, DanC
- # [01:08] <DanC> Zakim, close item 3
- # [01:08] <Zakim> agendum 3, overlap with HTTP; new issue?, closed
- # [01:08] <Zakim> I see 2 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is
- # [01:08] <Zakim> 4. ISSUE-7 video-codecs [from DanC]
- # [01:08] <DanC> Zakim, next item
- # [01:08] <Zakim> agendum 4. "ISSUE-7 video-codecs" taken up [from DanC]
- # [01:08] <MikeSmith> Chair: Dan Connolly
- # [01:09] <DanC> -> http://www.w3.org/QA/2007/12/when_will_html_5_support_soone.html When will HTML 5 support <video>? Sooner if you help
- # [01:09] <DanC> ACTION-31 is closed
- # [01:09] <DanC> Zakim, next item
- # [01:09] <Zakim> agendum 5. "Web Developer's Guide to HTML5, ACTION-34" taken up [from DanC]
- # [01:09] * MikeSmith wonders if we need to do trackbot-ng, close action-31
- # [01:09] <DanC> new due date: end of 2008-01
- # [01:10] <DanC> Zakim, close item 5
- # [01:10] <Zakim> agendum 5, Web Developer's Guide to HTML5, ACTION-34, closed
- # [01:10] <Zakim> I see nothing remaining on the agenda
- # [01:10] <DanC> next meeting: 10 Jan
- # [01:11] <Zakim> -Lachy
- # [01:11] <Zakim> -Doug_Schepers
- # [01:11] <Zakim> -MikeSmith
- # [01:11] <DanC> Zakim, drop Dan
- # [01:11] <Zakim> DanC is being disconnected
- # [01:11] <Zakim> HTML_WG()7:00PM has ended
- # [01:11] <Zakim> Attendees were MikeSmith, DanC, Doug_Schepers, Lachy
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- # [01:12] <MikeSmith> Meeting, HTML working group weekly issue-tracking teleconference
- # [01:12] <MikeSmith> Meeting: HTML working group weekly issue-tracking teleconference
- # [01:12] <MikeSmith> Chair: DanC
- # [01:12] * DanC changes topic to 'HTML WG meets 10 Jan; expects to publish HTML 5 spec 22 Jan http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/agenda (logs: http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/ ) '
- # [01:13] <MikeSmith> Present: DanConnolly, DougSchepers, LachlanHunt, MikeSmith
- # [01:13] <MikeSmith> RRSAgent, please draft minutes
- # [01:13] <RRSAgent> I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2007/12/21-html-wg-minutes.html MikeSmith
- # [01:14] <MikeSmith> i/next meeting/Topic: Next meeting/
- # [01:14] <MikeSmith> RRSAgent, please draft minutes
- # [01:14] <RRSAgent> I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2007/12/21-html-wg-minutes.html MikeSmith
- # [01:15] <MikeSmith> Meeting: HTML WG issue-tracking teleconference
- # [01:15] <MikeSmith> RRSAgent, please draft minutes
- # [01:15] <RRSAgent> I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2007/12/21-html-wg-minutes.html MikeSmith
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- # [03:01] <anne> hmm
- # [03:02] <anne> what overlap with HTTP?
- # [03:02] <anne> the minutes are all but clear
- # [03:21] <anne> Hixie, title="dom-tr-sectionRowIndex"><code>secondRowIndex</code></dfn> seems wrong
- # [03:21] <anne> second -> section
- # [03:22] <anne> although I'm not sure why rowIndex was incorrect, isn't there a rowIndex?
- # [03:28] <Hixie> uh, secondRowIndex, what was i thinking
- # [03:28] <Hixie> thanks
- # [03:29] <Hixie> rowIndex is the paragraph above it
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- # [03:32] <anne> oh ok
- # [03:32] <anne> then section -> second :)
- # [03:32] * anne wonders what secondRowIndex is
- # [03:32] * anne looks
- # [03:32] <Hixie> it's sectionRowInde
- # [03:32] <Hixie> x
- # [03:33] <anne> oh lol
- # [03:33] <anne> i'm clearly tired
- # [03:33] <Hixie> as was i when i wrote it :-P
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- # [03:34] <anne> g'night!
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- # [12:03] <krijnh> anne: ping
- # [12:03] <anne> pong
- # [12:03] <krijnh> Wat is een goede Nederlandse vertaling voor standaarden body's? (w3c, ietf, enz)
- # [12:04] <anne> Web standaard consortia?
- # [12:04] <krijnh> Hmm
- # [12:04] <krijnh> Hele mond vol :)
- # [12:05] <anne> of organisaties, maar dat zijn het niet echt...
- # [12:05] <krijnh> Standaardenbakkers..
- # [12:05] <anne> "W3C, etc." kan ook
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- # [14:17] <anne> re: globalStorage changes and some Firefox bug on the old globalStorage stuff: "This should block FF3 unless we decide we have time to obsolete the old syntax in favor of the new."
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- # [14:33] <hsivonen> Molly: I was wondering if there's someone on the case of Acid2 being broken at the moment
- # [14:33] <hsivonen> Molly: that is, http://www.webstandards.org/404/ returns HTTP 200 when it should return 404
- # [14:33] <Molly> Hi Henri. I'm aware of the concern but I have nothing to do with WaSP anymore. I gave David Storey from Opera some contact names
- # [14:33] <Molly> I'd be happy to give them to you as well!
- # [14:34] <hsivonen> Molly: OK. I trust it's enough if David Storey contacts whoever is in charge
- # [14:34] <hsivonen> Molly: thanks
- # [14:34] <Molly> sure! my pleasure.
- # [14:38] <Molly> actually I just pinged Drew McLellan - he says it's possibly related to WordPress but they're going to figure it out
- # [14:38] <Molly> we can torture them slowly if they don't within a reasonable time, okay? ;)
- # [14:38] <hsivonen> ok.
- # [14:45] <anne> the simplest thing for them is to simply replace the link with example.org/404
- # [14:45] <anne> hi btw
- # [14:45] <Molly> hi anne - yep, they're on it
- # [14:46] <Molly> it should be fixed today sometime
- # [14:48] <MikeSmith> Molly, nice to see you here
- # [14:49] <Molly> waves to Mike ~~~ nice to be at home instead of running around all the time :)
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- # [14:52] <Lachy> OMG! Dean is trolling www-style with his everyone-is-against-xhtml messages now. :-( http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0171.html
- # [14:54] <anne> seems like a natural thing to do
- # [14:55] <hsivonen> http://55.co.nz/ is text/html
- # [14:56] <hsivonen> though it claims to Vary on User-Agent, so perhaps it's sometimes something else
- # [14:56] <Molly> here's a case of brilliance (not) from WaSP re link in Acid2 : " we're on our way to it being fixed. turns out http://webstandards.org/404 returns an HTTP 404, when http://www.webstandards.org/404 returns an HTTP 200."
- # [15:03] <MikeSmith> Molly - been meaning to ask, is there any information about what different layout engine IE8 will be using and where it came from?
- # [15:04] <Molly> I honestly don't know that answer yet
- # [15:04] <Molly> I'll be getting my first images next week
- # [15:04] <MikeSmith> great
- # [15:04] <MikeSmith> Do you know if it is new code or if it came from another product?
- # [15:05] <Molly> I honestly don't know.
- # [15:05] <Molly> Chris would know
- # [15:05] <Molly> and if he's at liberty to say
- # [15:05] <Molly> he'll tell you :)
- # [15:05] <Molly> but my work has had a lot less to do with the code base
- # [15:05] <Molly> and more with politicking
- # [15:05] <Molly> next week I'm going to get to dig around
- # [15:06] <Molly> so we'll see.
- # [15:08] <MikeSmith> Molly - will you be able to comment on it publicly, or run test cases and say what the results are?
- # [15:09] <gsnedders> Called a smartass kid by a member of the WG :\
- # [15:10] <gsnedders> MikeSmith: Chris has said it's new, in such a way to imply it's new code
- # [15:11] <gsnedders> MikeSmith: what he flatly denied outright is it's code from outwith MS
- # [15:11] <Molly> I hope I"ll be able to comment publicly. If I start getting pushback on that, you can be sure I'll start to become loud and annoying to Microsoft :)
- # [15:12] <MikeSmith> gsnedders - thanks
- # [15:12] <Molly> @gsnedders : I've called you a smartass before. But I'm not a member of the WG! So you mustn't be talking about me :)
- # [15:12] <gsnedders> Molly: not on -archive + cc'd to chairs when replying to a compliant about your behaviour on public-html
- # [15:13] <Molly> well that's mean :I
- # [15:13] <hsivonen> Molly: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Dec/0090.html
- # [15:13] <gsnedders> making me consider again whether I should stay in this WG :\
- # [15:14] <Molly> oh consider the source
- # [15:14] <hsivonen> gsnedders: I suggest staying and avoiding certain threads
- # [15:15] <gsnedders> hsivonen: ya, but at time it means ignoring everything. what's the point in that at all?
- # [15:15] <Molly> I say rise above it
- # [15:15] <Molly> be the better person
- # [15:15] * gsnedders has better things to do with his time
- # [15:16] <Lachy> gsnedders, just learn which people to avoid in the future
- # [15:16] <hsivonen> for extra effectiveness, factor in In-Reply-To
- # [15:17] <Lachy> There are several people on public-html I already avoid responding to and the tactic seems to be working so far
- # [15:17] * Molly goes off to breakfast back later
- # [15:18] <gsnedders> Molly: can we have a comma so I can parse that?
- # [15:19] <Molly> pancakes in the shape of ampersands
- # [15:19] <Molly> and link sausages
- # [15:19] <Molly> stop me. this will get too silly :)
- # [15:19] <anne> it already is :p
- # [15:19] <gsnedders> Silly? Molly?
- # [15:20] <gsnedders> so much of my music is too joyful :\
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- # [15:44] <gsnedders> does anyone do the inverse (i.e., mark emails from people you think are good)
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- # [15:46] <Lachy> gsnedders, I do
- # [15:47] <Lachy> just for Philip though, to more easily distinguish him from the other one
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- # [15:51] <gsnedders> "You are currently using 497 MB (8%) of your 5914 MB." — That's just mailing lists since 2006 :\
- # [15:51] * Philip feels special
- # [15:53] * Philip should probably not use four different email addresses, to further confuse people as to who he is
- # [15:54] * gsnedders only finds two
- # [15:54] * gsnedders finds a third
- # [15:55] <Philip> "The script element allows authors to include dynamic script in their documents." - that seems wrong, given how people use it to embed XML and shaders and other things which are never meant to be executed
- # [15:55] <Philip> (I think the fourth is only on the WHATWG list)
- # [15:55] <gsnedders> ah, then I have found all four.
- # [15:56] * gsnedders has multiple people in the + section
- # [15:56] <gsnedders> and before anyone makes up a WHATWG-are-taking-over conspiracy, there are a number of people whose opinions I normally disagree with on that list
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- # [16:21] <Lachy> hmm. DanC thinks we can go from CR to REC in just 13 months.
- # [16:22] <DanC> yup
- # [16:22] <DanC> the key is to build tests as we address issues
- # [16:22] <Lachy> How do you expect to produce a comprehensive test suite and achieve 2 interoperable implementations of the whole spec within that time?
- # [16:22] <DanC> we have a lot of test materials in progress
- # [16:22] <DanC> I don't expect to produce a comprehensive test suite; just a good-enough test suite
- # [16:23] <Lachy> define "good enough"?
- # [16:23] <DanC> experience will define good enough
- # [16:23] * DanC checks the charter and finds "comprehensive test suite". hmm. oh well; that's still subject to judgement
- # [16:24] * gsnedders would count comprehensive at checking every possible if statement
- # [16:24] <DanC> I plan to do the best test suite we can in the next year or two
- # [16:24] <Lachy> CSS 2.1 has been CR for several years now (though it went back to WD in between)
- # [16:24] <DanC> assertion-based testing isn't all that valuable in my experience; I don't mind if somebody does it
- # [16:25] <Lachy> it looks like it was first published as CR in 2004
- # [16:25] <DanC> I don't think CSS is a good example of how to manage the W3C process
- # [16:25] <hsivonen> DanC: is there a good example that we should learn from?
- # [16:26] <Lachy> I'm referring to the time it is taking for CSS2.1 to be interoperably implemented
- # [16:26] <DanC> I've done several timely test suites: RDF Core, OWL, SPARQL, and GRDDL. I'm reasonably happy with all of those, though their scope is hundreds of times smaller than HTML's
- # [16:26] <Lachy> also CSS2.0 went Rec in 1998 (before the CR phase was introduced in the W3C), so that's been nearly 10 years and we still don't have 2 interoperable implementations
- # [16:26] <DanC> I expect a massively parallel testing and QA effort for HTML
- # [16:27] <Lachy> DanC, of course. Implementation and testing is currently going on. But it's taking a long time
- # [16:27] * DanC isn't particularly interested in using CSS as an example
- # [16:27] <hsivonen> DanC: It seems to me we lack a massive number of competent and willing test case writers
- # [16:27] * Lachy isn't particularly interested in using RDF and GRDDL as examples
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- # [16:28] <DanC> hsivonen, we have a lot of recruiting to do, indeed. But we don't need to write *that* many tests. The bulk of the manual labor is in reporting test results.
- # [16:29] <Lachy> DanC, roughly how many test cases would you estimate we would need for the whole spec? (just a rough figure to the nearest 1000 or so)
- # [16:30] <DanC> Lachy, there's no way to make a compelling argument about how long something will take. June 2009 is my best guess based on what I know today. Maybe in a few months I'll know different.
- # [16:30] <DanC> I think I've estimated 15,000 to 50,000 test cases.
- # [16:31] <Lachy> I just don't understand why you're being so persistent with your estimates, despite getting feedback about them being unrealisting on several occasions.
- # [16:31] <Lachy> *unrealistic
- # [16:31] <DanC> because I want to get finished, and repeating something does make it come true.
- # [16:32] <DanC> I'm not sure what you mean by "so persistent". I've changed my estimates several times
- # [16:32] <Lachy> I think we all want to get finished. I just want to be realistic.
- # [16:33] <Lachy> DanC, your estimates have always been fairly close to those given in the charter, varying only by a few months
- # [16:33] <DanC> I want to be realistic too; keep in mind that postponing features to a later release is always an option, and often a good one.
- # [16:34] <Lachy> so in order to get done by your time frame, you would suggest moving some features to HTML6, and publishing a smaller HTML5?
- # [16:34] <DanC> yes
- # [16:35] <gsnedders> in HTML 5 we need to define current browser features, even if no more.
- # [16:35] <DanC> "need" is a strong word.
- # [16:35] <DanC> we need to advance the state of the art; we don't need to solve all problems in one rev
- # [16:36] <anne> test results are hardly the issue
- # [16:36] <gsnedders> DanC: as someone who would like to create a HTML UA, yet someone who doesn't have huge amounts of time to spend reverse engineering current behaviour, it seems pointless to not define something interoperability
- # [16:36] <anne> creating the tests and getting implementors to fix the bugs is
- # [16:36] <anne> always has been the issue
- # [16:37] <DanC> yes, anne ; we should focus testing effort toward that end
- # [16:37] <DanC> that's why assertion testing is less interesting to me; there's little bang-for-the-buck in writing test cases for stuff that is already interoperably deployed
- # [16:38] <hsivonen> I'm sure given politics at the time, DTDs had to be in XML, but wow they sure are a pain for implementations
- # [16:38] <anne> also, going from CR to REC in 13 months seems optimistic if the test suite isn't ready by the time we go to CR
- # [16:38] <DanC> there's still _some_ value in it, and I hope somebody does it. but it's not a high priority
- # [16:38] <anne> (and even then it would be optimistic)
- # [16:38] <DanC> the test suite will be in some state of readiness as we go to CR
- # [16:38] <gsnedders> DanC: I'd question how you can be sure the stuff is interoperably deployed without test suites
- # [16:38] <anne> sure, they're in some state of readyiness now :)
- # [16:39] <anne> i guess we'll see how it goes
- # [16:39] <DanC> gsnedders, indeed, it's easier to be sure with more data.
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- # [18:07] <dzmat> I have read in news that W3C discarded Ogg Theora codec as standart codec for HTML5. Is it true? Where can i read about this?
- # [18:08] <hsivonen> dzmat: that's not an accurate characterization of what happened
- # [18:09] <Sander> dzmat: All that's happened is that the draft has been updated to reflect that there's no consensus on any required standard (the requirement of ogg before was effectively meaningless). Discussions and research are ongoing, and a final decision is still very far away.
- # [18:09] <hsivonen> dzmat: you can read more about it in the WHATWG archives
- # [18:10] <hsivonen> http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-December/date.html
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- # [18:13] <dzmat> sorry
- # [18:13] <hsivonen> works for me
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