- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jukka.k.korpela@kolumbus.fi>
- Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:20:22 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
2014-11-02 14:02, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > On 02/11/2014 11:03, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >> 2014-11-02 0:48, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: >>> No, as HTML does not specify look/presentation/default browser >>> rendering. >> >> It’s not quite that simple. >> >> All HTML specifications have said *something* about (default) rendering. >> Not normatively > > which is why I said it does not *specify* it. Non-normative is > informative... > You can specify things informatively. “To specify” means “to name or state explicitly or in detail”, according to Merriam–Webster. The meaning is not restricted to normative descriptions. And as I wrote, HTML5 (now a W3C Recommendation, finally) comes at least half way in the direction of making rendering rules normatively: they are normative, if a user agent announces to apply default rendering. This is not very different from the normativeness of HTML5 rules in general: they only relate to software that announces to implement HTML5, support HTML5, conform to HTML5, or whatever words it uses. -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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