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> Moreover, the [ABOUT] references the well-known > draft-holsten-about-uri-scheme which we have had a lot of discussions > on. Considering that there isn't a strong decision on this draft, I'd > recommend W3C not to include this text in the proposed document. > Mentioning that "about:legacy-compat" is to be used for a specific > purpose in Section 8.1.1 (the same is with "about:srcdoc") seems fine > to me. Currently, this Internet-Draft is being actively discussed at IETF; we haven't reached some stable consensus with regard to it. See archives at http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/maillist.html for these discussions. [split out from bug 12986]
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(In reply to comment #1) > 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: Rejected > Change Description: no spec change > Rationale: Several features have a fundamental dependency on the about URL > scheme. What do you suggest we reference instead? I'll change this to REOPENED now; please consider the following. The authors of this draft reveled unwillingness o continue work on it (this is at least what I've deduced from several month co-working with them trying to help with preparation of new version to consider IETF Last Call comments). Currently IETF APPSAWG working group is going to overtake this work; the new draft is going to have rather different concept. What I propose is to leave all mentions of 'about' URIs in the HTML spec but make no references. When 'about' URI scheme processes, it will make all necessary assignments; now please mention "about:<...> is used in <...> and about:<...> is used in <...>".
What do you mean different concept? You cannot change how it works.
(In reply to comment #3) > What do you mean different concept? You cannot change how it works. I meant that the document is very likely to be rewritten "from scratch". Most important, the current system of categorization may change significantly. Instead of making normative reference to the document whose contents aren't exactly known, you could better declare their use; however, when there is some consensus within the IETF on what should the 'about' URI scheme spec be, we'll fit HTML-used URIs to such document (or vice versa).
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: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: That is busy work. Please reopen when the IETF is done with its work on the about URL scheme and then we'll make the relevant changes.
This bug was cloned to create HTML WG bug 19074.
What's the status of the about: spec? Is it worth referencing?
It's http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6694 and I believe it might be referenced already, but it also does not state anything useful. I would expect it to become obsolete due to Fetch in due course.
Yeah, looks like the reference is in already. Marking WORKSFORME for now; when we integrate with fetch we can drop it if it no longer applies.