hixie: Give power to the wiki maintainers to nuke pointless synonyms. (whatwg r3908)

hixie: Give power to the wiki maintainers to nuke pointless synonyms.
(whatwg r3908)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.3069&r2=1.3070&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3907&to=3908

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3069
retrieving revision 1.3070
diff -u -d -r1.3069 -r1.3070
--- Overview.html 18 Sep 2009 21:27:13 -0000 1.3069
+++ Overview.html 18 Sep 2009 21:30:59 -0000 1.3070
@@ -9686,7 +9686,10 @@
    <dd><p>A list of other names that have exactly the same processing
    requirements. Authors should not use the names defined to be
    synonyms, they are only intended to allow user agents to support
-   legacy content.</dd>
+   legacy content. Anyone may remove synonyms that are not used in
+   practice; only names that need to be processed as synonyms for
+   compatibility with legacy content are to be registered in this
+   way.</dd>
 
 
    <dt>Status</dt>
@@ -50594,9 +50597,12 @@
    <dt>Synonyms</dt>
 
    <dd><p>A list of other keyword values that have exactly the same
-   processing requirements. Authors should not use the values defined to
-   be synonyms, they are only intended to allow user agents to support
-   legacy content.</dd>
+   processing requirements. Authors should not use the values defined
+   to be synonyms, they are only intended to allow user agents to
+   support legacy content. Anyone may remove synonyms that are not
+   used in practice; only names that need to be processed as synonyms
+   for compatibility with legacy content are to be registered in this
+   way.</dd>
 
 
    <dt>Status</dt>

Received on Friday, 18 September 2009 21:31:54 UTC