- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 11:19:02 +0200
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Julian Reschke wrote: >> Speaking of which, I'm not really sure why the UA parsing requirements >> with respect to processing invalid content need to be normative at >> all. As far as I can tell, there's really no need to make them normative. > > If you don't make the processing requirements normative, then UAs can > just implement whatever they like and claim conformance. That doesn't > help anyone at all, it just leaves us with the same situation we're in > now. We're trying to fix the problem, not just ignore it. If the processing requirements are written and agreed upon, and implemented by Apple/MS/Mozilla/Opera, it really makes no difference in practice what normative status they have. What's *essential* is that an author of a *conforming* document can rely on a well-defined behavior. If an author chooses to produce non-conforming documents, that's her/his choice. Best regards, Julian
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