xml-dev - Fwd: Announcement: DOM Level 2 Becomes a W3C Recommendation

[Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>]

[For your information]

Janet Daly wrote:
> 
> W3C is pleased to announce that the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2
> has become a W3C Recommendation.
> 
> DOM Level 2 has five components:
> 
> Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification
> Version 1.0
> 13 November 2000
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/
> Editors:
>         Arnaud Le Hors, W3C team contact until
>                 October 1999, then IBM
>         Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C, team contact
>                 (from November 1999)
>         Lauren Wood, SoftQuad Software Inc., WG Chair
>         Gavin Nicol, Inso EPS (for DOM Level 1)
>         Jonathan Robie, Texcel Research and Software AG
>                 (for DOM Level 1)
>         Mike Champion, ArborText and Software AG
>                 (for DOM Level 1 from November 20, 1997)
>         Steve Byrne, JavaSoft (for DOM Level 1 until
>                 November 19, 1997)
> 
> Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Style Specification
> Version 1.0
> 13 November 2000
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Style-20001113/
> Editors:
>         Chris Wilson, Microsoft Corp.
>         Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C, team contact (from November 1999)
>         Vidur Apparao, Netscape Communications Corp.
> 
> Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Events Specification
> Version 1.0
> 13 November 2000
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Events-20001113/
> Editors:
>         Tom Pixley, Netscape Communications Corp.
> 
> Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Views Specification
> Version 1.0
> 13 November 2000
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Views-20001113/
> Editors:
>         Arnaud Le Hors, W3C team contact until October 1999, then IBM
>         Laurence Cable, Sun Microsystems
> 
> Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range
> Specification
> Version 1.0
> 13 November 2000
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113/
> Editors:
>         Joe Kesselman, IBM
>         Jonathan Robie, Texcel Research and Software AG
>         Mike Champion, Arbortext and Software AG
>         Peter Sharpe, SoftQuad Software Inc.
>         Vidur Apparao, Netscape Communications Corp.
>         Lauren Wood, SoftQuad Software Inc., WG Chair
> 
> Results of Proposed Recommendation Call for Review
> 
> During the Proposed Recommendation Call for Review period, all reviews
> supported the 6 DOM Level 2 documents to advance to Recommendation.
> After the deadline, however, two sets of comments came in concerning the
> DOM Level 2 HTML specification. Both endorsed the advancement of
> the other 5 specifications, and were willing to see the DOM Level 2 HTML
> document to advance, although they had concerns about backwards compatibility.
> 
> One other comment was made regarding the package name in the language
> bindings. The Working Group addressed this issue and made a resolution
> on that issue during the development of Working Drafts; and reminded the
> commenter of this decision.
> 
> After reviewing the comments and considering the possible options, the
> Director chose to advance all but the DOM Level 2 HTML Specification to
> W3C Recommendation. The DOM Level 2 HTML Specification is now published
> as a Last Call Working Draft, to allow the W3C Working Groups to review
> it and for the Working Group to determine that compatibility issues are
> well addressed with the new version and that existing applications gain
> real benefits from the change, with the goal of resuming the W3C
> Recommendation track.
> 
> The DOM Level 2 HTML Specification may be found at:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20001113
> 
> Description of what Recommendation means
> 
> W3C Process Document, Section 6.2.5
> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/tr.html#RecsW3C
> 
>         Requirements for Entrance
>                 Director approval based on Advisory Committee review.
> 
>         Associated Activities
>                 Management of errata and clarification if necessary.
> 
>         Duration
>                 Indefinite.
> 
>         Next State
>                 Not applicable, though the document may be superseded.
> 
> A Recommendation reflects consensus within W3C, as indicated by the
> Director's approval. W3C considers that the ideas or technology
> specified by a Recommendation are appropriate for widespread deployment
> and promote W3C's mission. W3C will make every effort to maintain its
> Recommendations (e.g., by tracking errata, providing testbed
> applications, helping to create test suites, etc.) and to encourage
> widespread implementation.
> 
> Status of the Document
> 
> All five DOM Level 2 Recommendations share the same Status section, as follows:
> 
> This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
> publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest
> status of this document series is maintained at the W3C.
> 
> This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and other interested
> parties and has been endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation.
> It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited
> as a normative reference from another document. W3C's role in making the
> Recommendation is to draw attention to the specification and to promote
> its widespread deployment. This enhances the functionality and
> interoperability of the Web.
> 
> This document has been produced as part of the W3C DOM Activity. The
> authors of this document are the DOM Working Group members. Different
> modules of the Document Object Model have different editors.
> 
> Please send general comments about this document to the public mailing
> list www-dom@w3.org. An archive is available at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/.
> 
> The English version of this specification is the only normative version.
> Information about translations of this document is available at http://www.w3.org/2000/11/DOM-Level-2-translations.
> 
> The list of known errors in this document is available at http://www.w3.org/2000/11/DOM-Level-2-errata
> 
> A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can
> be found at http://www.w3.org/TR.
> 
> Please join us in congratulating the DOM Working Group on their achievement.
> 
> For Tim Berners-Lee, Director, W3C;
> Janet Daly, Head of Communications

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Philippe Le Hegaret - http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), DOM Activity Lead