9472 2010-04-10 01:18:50 +0000 deal with broken links in dynamic author view of spec by prompting users to choose to switch to full view 2010-10-04 13:56:49 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All CLOSED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 mike ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 34721 0 mike 2010-04-10 01:18:50 +0000 <MikeSmith> Hixie: for the dynamic case, maybe one of your scripts could cause an alert to pop up, saying "The target of this link is not in the author view, do you want to switch to the full (implementor) view instead?" <MikeSmith> or something like that <MikeSmith> I don't know how feasible that would be, though <Hixie> ooh that's a good idea <Hixie> MikeSmith: can you file a bug to that effect? <MikeSmith> Hixie: yeah, will do ...the full context of the original IRC discussion: <MikeSmith> Hixie: about the broken links in IDLs in the the author view of the spec, for the static W3C copy of the author-view that I'm generating, I guess I can have the script for that rewrite the fragment IDs in the IDLs so that they point to the domintro stuff instead, but not clear to me if/how it's fixable in the dynamic/JS-switchable view of the spec <MikeSmith> and since not all attributes in the IDLs have corresponding domintro content, I guess on I can just have the build of the static author view un-link them and instead just display them as normal text <MikeSmith> It seems like that's mainly the case for DOM attributes that have same names as content attributes <MikeSmith> or whatever they're currently called in the spec to distinguish them from one another <Hixie> MikeSmith: yeah i don't know what to do in the dynamic case <MikeSmith> if you need a schema to use for validation, the right thing to use these days is either RelaxNG or W3C XML Schema <Hixie> MikeSmith: in the static case it might make more sense to start from the pre-anolis draft, change the domintro elements to dfn, and rerun anolis <MikeSmith> Hixie: for the dynamic case, maybe one of your scripts could cause an alert to pop up, saying "The target of this link is not in the author view, do you want to switch to the full (implementor) view instead?" <MikeSmith> or something like that <MikeSmith> I don't know how feasible that would be, though <Hixie> ooh that's a good idea <Hixie> MikeSmith: can you file a bug to that effect? <MikeSmith> Hixie: yeah, will do 34890 1 ian 2010-04-13 08:09:12 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.