[Bug 24591] Make W3C HTML5 spec clearly and correctly state that table@border is obsolete & invalid (nonconforming)

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24591

--- Comment #16 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Leif Halvard Silli from comment #10)
> Actually, for ”the trunk” - HTML 5.1 - it was Hixie that made table@border
> disappear. ANd it appears to have happened in his “giant clean-up of 2013“
> on Nov 07, 2013:
> <https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/5f540174f5fde713e45b72c81e530fb5d964d2df>
> 
> Before that date, @border is in, starting with that date, @border is out.
> 
> Hixie stated in his commit message this: ”No normative changes.”
> Thus, evidently, the omission of @border - a normative change - was an error.
> 
> The dog might be burried in the following commit message:
> ”W3C editorial note: Added several missing FORK markers, [...]”
> So Hixie may have blundered w.r.t. to where he placed his new FORK markers.
> 
> So, I would once more expect the editors to fix Hixie’s mishap.
> And to not use his mishap as pretext or evidence for anything.
> 
> (For HTML5.0, this error only appeared in mid-January.)

point of clarification.
Hixie does not commit to the w3c HTML spec. We have a WHATWG branch that is
updated as hixie makes changes to his spec. The w3c editors cherry pick from
those commits to apply to html 5.1/html5. Where the w3c.whatg specs differ we
generally have markers to indicate a divergence to avoid overwriting
intentional differences. What occurred was that during the cherry pick of a
large commit the 'border text of the w3c spec got overwritten, a mistake on the
w3c editors part. I believe this has now been corrected.

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Received on Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:20:51 UTC