The first public working draft of the XBL Primer has just been published! It is being edited by myself and Marcos Caceres.
For those of you who were wondering when exactly I was going to complete my series on XBL (see part 1 and part 2), that content has been integrated into the primer. If you have any comments about it, feel free to post them to public-appformats@w3.org (archive), leave a comment here or mail me directly.
The Selectors API naming debate is finally over! (I hope)
The number of possibilities and arguments was absurd! There were over 38 pairs of names to choose from, with arguments for and against every single one of them. Today, after carefully reviewing the arguments and considering the possibilities, I eventually decided upon selectElement() and selectAllElements().
In an attempt to settle the debate once and for all, I wrote a detailed rationale explaining how I came to this decision. You can see the latest version of the spec in CVS.
It’s about time! After over 2 months and dozens of pointless debates on public-html–the W3C’s HTMLWG mailing list–we have finally achieved something productive. The HTML5 spec, which we have been working on in the WHATWG for the past 3 years, has finally been accepted for review as the basis for the official HTML 5.
This is great news! It’s certainly better than the other alternative proposed: start with HTML4 and drop the transitional features (yes, some people actually did suggest that!).
The charter says we’re supposed to have a first public working draft published by June this year, and it looks like we will actually be able to achieve that.