the 'current' specification "as of the date recorded it"

[saschanaz]

the 'current' specification "as of the date recorded it"

[Fyrd]

You make a very good point, thanks for highlighting that.

Yeah, I agree all support should be based on the 'current' spec. However, it should be clear what 'current' means. Many specs now exist as both a "working draft" (or candidate rec. or better) and a latest "editors draft". Editors drafts are the latest ones but are also most prone to change, and can change daily based on the opinion of a single editor (as I understand it), so unless that's the only version of the spec there is I prefer to consider only WD or better as the the "current" spec.

Does that make sense to you?

I see in the case of the fullscreen API in #124 the working draft has the pseudo-class change, so I'm happy to make the suggested change there.

[saschanaz]

Yes, you're right, "editer's drafts" are changing so fast that we cannot consider it. However, working drafts also can have multiple specs. When it comes to, for example, again, Flexible Box Layout Module, there were two changes.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-flexbox-20090723/
In this working draft, one property named 'box-ordinal-group' was there.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-flexbox-20110322/
It suddenly disappeared and transformed into 'flex-order' in the next working draft.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-flexbox-20120612/
And it disappeared again and transformed into 'order' in the next working draft, and the current candidate recommendation. (full change here http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-flexbox-20120612/#changes)

One of the service I'm using uses the first specification, and IE10 only supports the second specification, and now the almost-completed HTML5 web standard uses last one.

So, I want to say that even without editor's drafts we yet have both old (and sometimes semi-old) and current specs :) I think if we have the additional info then we can update the browser support information from the 'old' draft to 'newer' draft more easily, I say, without having to check them again.

[Fyrd]

Right, well in cases like that we'll just want the "Latest version" that the spec links to, in this case the one at http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/ And yes, once there's a new one the support info should indeed be updated.

I'm actually working on a mechanism where notes can be designated to specific browser versions, which should make it much easier to show which version is using which spec.

[saschanaz]

I think that will be much better! XD

[Fyrd]

As mentioned in my last comment, the site now uses numbered notes for this kind of info.