[Bug 11540] The willful violation clause is most unwise. A standard should not violate another standard for any reason. This wouls lead to 2 things : 1) Content correctly encoded content would never be displayed correctly. 2) All future standards would need to includ

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11540

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

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #11 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-01-11 05:53:41 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Comment 1 is correct.

> The willful violation clause is most unwise. A standard should not violate
> another standard for any reason.

I disagree. That's a reversal of the priority of constituencies. Users,
authors, and implementors are all more important than spec purity.


> This wouls lead to 2 things : 1) Content correctly encoded content would
> never be displayed correctly.

This is already the case.


> 2) All future
> standards would need to include the same clause, making them more complex and
> weakening the standards defining the charsets.

I don't see why this would affect other standards.

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