Prefer references to EDs and others spec versions that are in active development about html5-overview

[dret]

i am torn about this one. i am not a big fan of the current "living spec/document" fashion, but i do see that this is happening, and that the more formal distinction TR vs. editor's draft is a similar thing. would you like to see links to both? so far, i simply trust the W3C to make the latest and greatest official version available at the generic URI, and i don't specifically link to a version. any concrete proposal how to change this without creating too much noise, or making it necessary to update the links too often?

[sideshowbarker]

TR vs. editor's draft is a similar thing. would you like to see links to both?
any concrete proposal how to change this without creating too much noise

You can take a look http://www.w3.org/TR/#tr_Javascript_APIs to see how we handle it in the similar information we provide at www.w3.org site. For each spec we provide just two links: one to a TR URL and one to a ED URL.

However, I think the way we do it there is still less completely ideal, because for the TR link, it provides dated URLs instead of just the http://www.w3.org/TR// URLs.

or making it necessary to update the links too often?

I think if you were to just use the http://www.w3.org/TR// URLs and the ED URLs, you would basically never need to ever update the links, since those are stable unchanging URLs (to documents that may change).

[dret]

I think if you were to just use the http://www.w3.org/TR// URLs and the ED URLs, you would basically never need to ever update the links, since those are stable unchanging URLs (to documents that may change).

that sounds reasonable, as long as the EDs have generic URIs (which i think they almost always have). i'll try to add that to the code that's processing the XML asap, please stay tuned. it may take some community effort after that to actually add those ED URIs were they exist (hint, hint ;-).

[sideshowbarker]

it may take some community effort after that to actually add those ED URIs were they exist (hint, hint ;-).

Sure, no rush and I'm happy to help when needed.

[dret]

please have a look at 31b6ef8 (XML only) and let me know if something as simple as this could be good enough to address this issue.

[sideshowbarker]

please have a look at 31b6ef8 (XML only) and let me know if something as simple as this could be good enough to address this issue.

Yeah as I said I the comment there, I think that'd be perfect.

[dret]

7aacb96 is a first attempt (currently only the geofencing WD has such an ED link), please let me know what you think.

[dret]

assuming that the simple link is sufficient, and closing this issue.

[sideshowbarker]

7aacb96 is a first attempt (currently only the geofencing WD has such an ED link), please let me know what you think.

Yeah, looks great—thanks