Re: editable documents - all user agents?

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, George Lund wrote:
> 
> Re section 5 (editing) - it sounds like all user agents are expected to 
> support contentEditable etc. (e.g. "User agents must support this 
> attribute on all HTML elements").
> 
> Surely that's not the actual intention - there are plenty of UA 
> situations where this wouldn't be appropriate?

Supporting the attribute doesn't mean much (in fact I'll remove that 
paragraph); the parts that require actually letting the user edit the 
document are all "should"s not "must"s.

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