[csswg-drafts] App. A: Aural style sheets is informative yet sounds normative

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== App. A: Aural style sheets is informative yet sounds normative ==
This goes all the way back to 2002 when it was made informative in ac046f711d.

> This chapter is informative. 

 - [ ] It's an appendix, not a chapter.

> The properties in this appendix apply to a media type 'aural', that was introduced in CSS2. The type 'aural' is now deprecated.

 - [ ] Are we informatively deprecating aural?

> User agents should allow the values corresponding to '0' and '100' to be set by the listener. 

 - [ ] Are we using RFC 2119 "should" informatively? What does it mean that a UA should implement this as an informative statement?

> This property specifies whether text will be rendered aurally and if so, in what manner.

 - [ ] Does it? I thought the property didn't really exist; the appendix is, after all, informative.

> For information, here is the list of properties implemented by Emacspeak, a speech subsystem for the Emacs editor.

- [ ] Why are we informatively giving an implementation report for an informative appendix in the spec?

More generally, why is this appendix even here? We obviously don't expect/want anyone to implement it (otherwise it would've been made normative again), so what do we gain by having it here? Should we define `display: run-in` (which was also in CSS2) informatively as well and rename it "Appendix A. Abandoned Features"?

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