Re: Extensibility and Uniformity; defining "error" behavior

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:57:07 +0100, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote:
> +2  I've always understood the word in more or less Larry's sense.  
> However, it don't see (contra other comments) that the criteria in  
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/#crec   are necessarily at odds with Larry's  
> definition. This refers to test suites, which are collections of  
> examples provided by a specs authors which are used to illustrate  
> required or expected interoperation behaviors, such as not crashing or  
> delivering a certain type of response under certain conditions. The RDF  
> and OWL test suites, for example, consisted largely of example parsings,  
> entailments and non-entailments appropriate for fragments of RDF and OWL  
> syntax. None of this requires uniformity of the user agent's  
> implementation, only in certain aspects of its behavior (those required  
> for interoperability, in fact.)

Well, if you see it like that than Ian also simply means  
"interoperability" as the idea is that HTML5 roughly follows the CSS 2.1  
model here.


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Anne van Kesteren
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