Re: CfC: publish Last Call Working Draft of Web IDL; deadline July 7

2011-07-10 Thread timeless
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: Although there are ongoing discussions regarding exceptions, there were no objections to this CfC. As such, I will request publication of a LC specification to encourage broader review and comments. Sorry, I'm in the

Re: CfC: publish Last Call Working Draft of Web IDL; deadline July 7

2011-07-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:01:17 +0200, timeless timel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: Although there are ongoing discussions regarding exceptions, there were no objections to this CfC. As such, I will request publication of a LC

Re: Test suites and RFC2119

2011-07-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:32:42 +0200, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: Generally, if something is important enough for interop that we want to test it, we don't want to make it a should requirement. It should be a must. What examples do you have of should requirements that you

Re: Test suites and RFC2119

2011-07-10 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Charles McCathieNevile cha...@opera.com wrote: Privacy and security restrictions leap to mind. There are things that really are should requirements because there are valid use cases for not applying them, and no reason to break those cases by making the

Re: Test suites and RFC2119

2011-07-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:34:59 +0200, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Charles McCathieNevile cha...@opera.com wrote: Privacy and security restrictions leap to mind. There are things that really are should requirements because there are valid use

Re: Test suites and RFC2119

2011-07-10 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Aryeh Gregor wrote: The difference is that if you have must requirements that are specific to a single conformance class, you can write a test suite and expect every implementation in that class to pass it. For should requirements, you're saying it's okay to violate it, so test suites don't