hixie: try to clarify the applicable spec stuff (whatwg r5605)

hixie: try to clarify the applicable spec stuff (whatwg r5605)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4481&r2=1.4482&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5604&to=5605

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   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),

Received on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 06:54:17 UTC