Re: [XBL] - please remove reference to HTML5

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Dean Jackson wrote:
> 
> This comment comes from the W3C Staff.
> 
> Please remove the references to the HTML5 specification, at least in the 
> version published by the W3C. To be clear, this is not a negative 
> comment on HTML5 -- the reference is ok, but a W3C specification should 
> not rely on normative behaviour described in an unstable specification.
> 
> For example:
> 
> > Security contexts are (or will be) described in the HTML5 specification.
> [HTML5]
> 
> Hopefully new work on HTML at the W3C can allow such a reference in the 
> near future.

I have changed the reference to be an informative reference. You are 
absolutely correct that it is inapproriate for the specification to 
normatively refer to incomplete specifications.

Thanks,
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