The people working on the D3E spec (namely Jacob, Doug and Olli) propose
below that the spec be published as a Candidate Recommendation and this
is a CfC to do so:
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/DOM-Level-3-Events/html/DOM3-Events.html
The comment tracking document for the last LCWD is:
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/DOM-Level-3-Events/dc.html
This CfC satisfies: a) the group's requirement to "record the group's
decision to request advancement" to CR; and b) "General Requirements for
Advancement on the Recommendation Track" as defined in the Process Document:
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#transition-reqs
The exit criteria has not yet been added to the ED and I request the
Editors to please propose the specific criteria in response to this
e-mail before the comment deadline. It is my expectation that Microsoft
and Mozilla will complete the test suite [TS] they started and they will
implement this CR. As such, I assume the exit criteria will include a
requirement that at least two independent implementations pass all of
the test cases.
As with all of our CfCs, positive response is preferred and encouraged
and silence will be considered as agreeing with the proposal. The
deadline for comments is October 21 and all comments should be sent to
www-dom at w3.org.
-AB
[TS] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webapps/file/tip/DOMEvents/tests/submissions
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Request for CfC to publish DOM Level 3 Events as a CR
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:11:52 +0000
From: ext Jacob Rossi <jacob.ro...@microsoft.com>
To: Arthur Barstow (art.bars...@nokia.com) <art.bars...@nokia.com>,
Charles McCathieNevile (cha...@opera.com) <cha...@opera.com>
CC: Doug Schepers (schep...@w3.org) <schep...@w3.org>, www-...@w3.org
<www-...@w3.org>
Art and Charles,
We'd like to request a Call for Consensus to publish DOM3 Events as a Candidate
Recommendation. We believe the spec is ready for such publication on the
following grounds:
1. Responses to Last Call issues have been documented in a published
Disposition of Comments [1].
2. At least two members are targeting implementations of this spec (Microsoft,
Mozilla)
3. All changes since the Last Call draft have been editorial with the exception
of:
Revision 1.204 - this change was more of a clarification of intended
behavior and it matches implementations.
4. In a recent Working Group teleconference, we've agreed on how to move
forward with submitting and approving test cases for a suite (more on this
subject to follow shortly).
We recognize that there will always be new ideas for the event model--some great new ideas, such as event constructors,
have recently been proposed. But we can't keep DOM3 Events in perpetual evolution. As such, I've prepared a rough
proposal for a new specification to continue innovation in the event model (preliminarily titled "DOM4
Events" with event constructors as my first suggestion for scope). I believe such a spec can be written to extend
and improve upon DOM3 Events in areas that are outside the scope of DOM4 (e.g., event constructors for interfaces
outside the "DOM Event Architecture" and "Basic Event Interfaces" chapters of D3E). Doing so will
give implementers a stable spec to target (D3E) while still fostering new ideas and continued improvement in the model
(DOM4, "DOM4 Events").
I'm sure folks will have some great technical feedback as well as suggestions
for goals/scope of my proposal, and I don't want that to get mixed in with this
request for a CfC. So I'll follow up with a link to that proposal shortly in a
separate thread so we can begin that conversation.
Regards,
Jacob Rossi
[1]http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/DOM-Level-3-Events/dc.html
