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- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:53:15 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9969 --- Comment #1 from Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> 2010-07-28 14:53:14 --- The risk of having this document published as normative is that it has a serious risk of stating conflicting requirements with regards to the actual requirements defined in the HTML5 and XML family of specifications. A good example of this is the current drafts incorrect requirement for lowercase attribute values. Another is the incorrect permission to use alternative XHTML DOCTYPEs, beyond those considered obsolete but permitted in HTML5. The risk of such mistakes slipping through the cracks, leading to a situation where neither document can claim authority over the other, is just too problematic and should be avoided. There are other cases claiming normativity is a problem even without a specific conflict, like with the stated requirement for explicit tbody tags, even though the content model of table permits tr as a child without tbody. The document should instead note the syntactic discrepancy between HTML and XHTML and recommend that authors do include the tbody tags, but without attempting to impose a largely inconsequential normative authoring requirement. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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