[Bug 7525] meta/@name=keywords should be specified (and made conforming)

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7525





--- Comment #4 from Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  2009-09-07 12:23:57 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> ...
> This has nothing to do with ideology (what ideology?). HTML5 was written from
> scratch.
> ...

The belief that doing so is the right thing to do is IMHO ideological.

> We could move the three definitions in the HTML5 spec to another spec, but they
> are all significantly more useful than "keywords", so there are stronger
> reasons to keep them in the spec. For instance, "generator" affects the
> behaviour of validators, "application-name" has normative conformance criteria
> for UAs, and "description" is actually used by all manner of UAs.
> 
> Since the only reason you have provided for defining this feature is that some
> other document once defined it, I haven't added it. Please reopen the bug if
> there are more compelling reasons.
> ...

That is incorrect; another reason I have provided is that it is widely used;
and there's no good reason to make these documents non-conforming.


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Received on Monday, 7 September 2009 12:24:05 UTC