- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:44:09 -0500
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>, gonchuki <gonchuki@gmail.com>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 00:09 +1000, Ben Boyle wrote: > On 8/23/07, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > is nonetheless important : can a certain markup style be > > "non-conforming" (rather than "deprecated") if it not > > consistent with WCAG guidelines but is consistent with > > HTML 5 syntax ? > > I'm not sure. Do the following all mean different things? > 1. valid HTML5 > 2. conforming HTML5 > 3. WCAG conformance > > Valid HTML4/XHTML1 and WCAG compliance are currently different things. > I'm not sure where "conformance" fits into the picture, but have an > inkling it falls between the two (if so, not sure how useful I'll > personally find that as an author). > > Or is conformance more about when HTML error handling kicks in (i.e. > to handle non-conforming content). Something entirely different? I > read 1.3 in the spec, it didn't simplify it for me. > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#conformance > > Can we get a clear definition of "conformance" and have that added to > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#terminology If you provide suggested text, I expect the editors to consider it. Otherwise, I suppose the editors have already done their best to be clear. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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