- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:20:27 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Toby Inkster wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > Authors must not use elements, attributes, and attribute values that > > are not permitted by this specification or other applicable > > specifications. > > -- http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#semantics-0 > > Which "other specifications" are "applicable"? Pretty much any that claim to be and that the people affected agree are applicable. If an RDFa specification said that text/html could have arbitrary xmlns:* attributes, then the HTML5 specification would (by virtue of the above-quoted sentence) defer to it and thus it would be allowed. Similarly, Microsoft could write a spec and claim <marquee> is valid, as well as <msword> and <excel>. Of course, if a community doesn't acknowledge the authority of such a spec, and they _do_ acknowledge the authority of the HTML5 spec, then it would be (for them) as if that spec didn't exist. Similarly, there might be a community that only acknowledges the HTML4 spec and doesn't consider HTML5 to be relevant, in which case for them, HTML5 isn't relevant. This is how specs work. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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