hixie: List some of the differences, to make Julian happier. (whatwg r5565)

hixie: List some of the differences, to make Julian happier. (whatwg
r5565)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4446&r2=1.4447&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5564&to=5565

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     </dl></li>
 
   </ol><p class="note">This requirement is a <a href="#willful-violation">willful violation</a>
-  of the HTTP specification, motivated by the need for backwards
-  compatibility with legacy content. <a href="#refsHTTP">[HTTP]</a></p>
+  of the HTTP specification (for example, HTTP doesn't allow the use
+  of single quotes and requires supporting a backslash-escape
+  mechanism that is not supported by this algorithm<!-- not to mention
+  not having any rules for error-handling, which is of course why
+  we're having to define it ourselves -->), motivated by the need for
+  backwards compatibility with legacy content. <a href="#refsHTTP">[HTTP]</a></p>
 
   </div><h3 id="common-dom-interfaces"><span class="secno">2.8 </span>Common DOM interfaces</h3><h4 id="reflecting-content-attributes-in-idl-attributes"><span class="secno">2.8.1 </span>Reflecting content attributes in IDL attributes</h4><p>Some IDL attributes are defined to <dfn id="reflect">reflect</dfn> a
   particular content attribute. This means that on getting, the IDL

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