[Bug 12570] Missing informative reference to PDF

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12570

--- Comment #8 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> 2011-06-30 19:30:52 UTC ---
HTML5 also has non-normative references:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/references.html#references

I just question whether merely mentioning a data format in non-normative text
implies we have to give a non-normative reference for it.  Adopting that policy
uniformly would mean adding tons of references that practically no readers will
be interested in.  Not many readers of HTML5 are going to be writing a PDF
implementation (or H.264 or Speex or whatever), and the ones who are can
probably find the standard themselves.  By contrast, existing non-normative
references are mostly things like Atom or NPAPI, which are simple and likely to
be of interest to a lot of readers.

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Received on Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:30:54 UTC