- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:53:27 +0000
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Update of /sources/public/html5/spec In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv12835 Modified Files: Overview.html Log Message: try to clarify the applicable spec stuff (whatwg r5605) Index: Overview.html =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v retrieving revision 1.4481 retrieving revision 1.4482 diff -u -d -r1.4481 -r1.4482 --- Overview.html 12 Oct 2010 06:34:51 -0000 1.4481 +++ Overview.html 12 Oct 2010 06:53:22 -0000 1.4482 @@ -2964,6 +2964,16 @@ this specification.</p> <!-- http://www.w3.org/mid/17E341CD-E790-422C-9F9A-69347EE01CEB@iki.fi --> + <p class="note">Someone could write a specification that defines any + arbitrary byte stream as conforming, and then claim that their + random junk is conforming. However, that does not mean that their + random junk actually is conforming for everyone's purposes: if + someone else decides that that specification does not apply to their + work, then they can quite legitimately say that the aforementioned + random junk is just that, junk, and not conforming at all. As far as + conformance goes, what matters in a particular community is what + that community <em>agrees</em> is applicable.</p> + <hr><p>User agents must treat elements and attributes that they do not understand as semantically neutral; leaving them in the DOM (for DOM processors), and styling them according to CSS (for CSS processors),
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