Closed Bug 1328799 Opened 7 years ago Closed 5 years ago

revise <dialog> page: Specifications table

Categories

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

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Other
defect
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normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: chrisharvey2pi+mozilla, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [specification][type:bug])

What did you do?
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1. visit https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dialog
2. view the table in "Specifications" section

What happened?
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the Specifications table says that the <dialog> element was defined in HTML 5.1 (Recommendation). This is incorrect---see https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ : there is no <dialog> element in that specification.

What should have happened?
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The <dialog> element actually first appears (apart from the WHATWG Standard) in HTML 5.2 (Working Draft as of 2017-01-04). See https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/interactive-elements.html#the-dialog-element. The Specifications table should be updated to reflect this.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Component: Wiki pages → General
Product: Mozilla Developer Network → Developer Documentation
:teoli, the problem here is that we have in the SpecName table a spec whose ID is "HTML5.1" but it links to the latest draft, which is actually listed by W3C as HTML 5.2. <dialog> indeed doesn't exist in HTML 5.1 if you go directly to that spec.

So. How do we handle this case properly?
Flags: needinfo?(jypenator)
I think we should have an entry for 5.1 linking to the recommandation, and a new one for 5.2 linking to the draft.
Flags: needinfo?(jypenator)
The spec table on that page now links to the Living Standard and to the 5.2 spec.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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