[Bug 6774] <mark> element: restrict insertion by other servers

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6774


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #18 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-08-09 22:03:30 ---
> -- Edit the example that depends on knowing the user's search string (the
> "kitten" explanation) to require that the markup be performed only inside the
> original page owner's server. Replace "and the server knew" with "and the
> original page owner's server knew". The next mention of "the server" should
> stay as it is, as it would inherit the constraint on the first mention.

I think it's clear that "the server" here is the server serving the page.


> allow per-page opt-in by the page author via a meta tag to permit anyone else
> to add mark tags anywhere else. Without an opt-in on a page, other servers thus
> could not legally add the markup to that page.

Other pages already can't add any markup to the page. Servers can't just
arbitrarily affect each other.

Marking WONTFIX since I think the requested fix is unnecessary in context, and
would in fact lead to readers wondering if another server could have been meant
if the clause wasn't present (as it isn't in many other cases in the spec).


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Received on Sunday, 9 August 2009 22:03:43 UTC