RE: content-072.htm is invalid

On Monday, October 25, 2010 1:25 PM Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Arron Eicholz
> <Arron.Eicholz@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately we only really have the HTML 4.01 spec to rely on. It's the
> only current HTML Recommendation available for CSS. If HTML5 were at the
> Recommendation stage the discussion would be different but it isn't, and we
> are a long way from that. I am not really trying to argue, in fact I personally
> agree with you about the state of HTML 4.01. CSS just needs to point to a
> certain level of specification as a normative reference and that happens to be
> the current HTML 4.01 spec. Until that changes I see no reason to remove a
> test from the test suite that is a valid HTML markup testing CSS features.
> 
> I don't see any value in process-lawyering here.  If we can't normatively
> reference HTML5 due to W3C process, that means that W3C process is
> broken there.  That's fine, whatever, we've run into these kinds of issues
> before.  What we should *not* do is attempt to test parts of our normative
> references that we know are incorrect, just because they're normative.

There isn't much value in handling this on public-css-testsuite. This issue should be brought up to www-style and you should drive getting the normative reference changed if you think it is necessary.

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Thanks,
Arron Eicholz

Received on Monday, 25 October 2010 21:55:03 UTC