Re: "may ignore markup"

On 03/03/2011 06:51 PM, John Gregg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Anne van Kesteren<annevk@opera.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:23:11 +0100, Drew Wilson<atwilson@google.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to push the burden onto the UA to ensure that strings are
>>> displayed literally (no markup), doing escaping as necessary if the
>>> underlying
>>> platform library would otherwise interpret markup in the string.
>>
>> That sounds better to me too. Otherwise we get people relying on
>> platform-dependent behavior.
>>
>
> Okay, if there is consensus, I will change it to "the user agent must
> display the string literally as plain text, escaping any markup if
> required based on the underlying notification platform."

I agree that is good. I think you might want to be slightly clearer that 
it is the notification mechanism's idea of what constitutes "markup" 
that is important. This could just be by rewording the sentence or by 
having a non-html example e.g. a hypothetical notification mechanism 
that uses bbcode or something.

Received on Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:59:27 UTC