Remove the Notes section and all specs in it about html5-overview

[dret]

so i guess 7716a82 is not enough to make you happy? if not, then i'll think about creating a separate page. i still think it's nice to have that set available somewhere.

[sideshowbarker]

I think 7716a82 helps some but I’d guess it’s also going to cause people to next wonder which particular specs in the Notes section are abandoned vs which are just outdated but still being worked on elsewhere. I guess that could be clarified by an annotation for each spec but IMHO that would just be added complexity without any benefit to most users.

I’ve been assuming that the main intended users of this overview are Web developers who want at list of all APIs that are under development related to browsers as a programming platform, with some indication of what level of maturity the specs are at. And I think this overview does that well. The specs that are in development are all specs that I can imagine Web developers actually wanting to take some time to read themselves so that they can learn more about what features are available to use.

But as far as the specs in the Notes section, nothing published at the W3C as a Note is under development at the W3C any longer. Instead they are all by definition things for which all development at the W3C has stopped. And there’s no use case I can imagine in which a Web developer would want to actually take time to read any of those Note specs.

So while I can imagine that there might be some users of the overview with curiosity about specs that had been in development at the W3C at one time but are not any longer, I think most Web developers at least don’t care much at all to know that and don’t want to read any of those specs.

Instead I would think what they’d prefer is just a list of those specs that are actually still relevant to programming Web applications that run in browsers.

This gets back to what I wrote in #20 (comment) when I said that I think the value of this overview is that it’s curated, instead of just being a dump of a bunch of specs that W3C working groups have published but that may or may not actually be relevant. The value of the overview is that it restricts itself just to telling users which specs are actually relevant currently.

[dret]

next try: does 0715a0f make you sufficiently happy? any specific suggestions for improvements highly welcome!

[sideshowbarker]

Yes, thanks much for making this change.