On Dec 10, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Jean-Yves Bitterlich wrote:
Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
On Dec 10, 2007, at 7:15 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
Ikivo have told me that they also implemented already with the
existing event names, and would write to say so.
I am therefore resolving this issue by not changing the names.
I don't think the JSR objection is very strong, since JSR-280 says:
"Note – Note that MouseWheelEvent and ProgressEvent are newly
included in the W3C DOM3 draft specification and have not yet gone
through the W3C public review. These W3C specifications are
therefore to be considered as work in progress. There may be some
modifications to these event types in the JSR280 Maintenance
Release to ensure alignment with the DOM3 Event types."
This clause has been added in respect to the agreement between W3C
and Sun/JSR-280 given the current state of the related W3C
specifications.
Sure, and I think we need to respect the spirit and not just the
letter of that agreement. It seems like a bad idea to freeze W3C specs
in very early development just because a faster-moving standards
process copies them.
In general I don't think we want to set a precedent of locking in
bad names in Editor's Drafts without a compelling reason. An
implementation alone is not much reason, there would have to be
significant content depending on it.
agreed. However, JSR-280 is Final Release: i.e. a Reference
Implementation (RI) as well as a Test and Compatibility Kit (TCK)
are available and licensed/licensable; Moreover a development kit
is also available and compliant.
This looks compelling enough ... too me :-)
What would look compelling to me is web content depending on the
specific names. That's more important than whether someone shipped an
implementation.
I'll admit that method naming isn't the biggest issue. But it seems
like bad precedent to start giving weight to external standards that
copy very early stage W3C standards, as this subverts the W3C's own
standards process, which runs by different rules than the Java
Community Process.
Regards,
Maciej
