- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:10:33 +0200
- To: W3C HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 mattraymond@earthlink.net (Matthew Raymond) wrote: >Ah, but you fail to follow his logic. If the spec says that, by >default, you can be non-conforming unless you opt into conformance, you >are in fact conforming! Thus we eliminate non-conformance by redefining >what conformance is. I'm saying that the mere presence of a switch does not alter the conformance status. Given two alternate processors in one UA who are both conforming, a switch to choose between them does not suddenly make one of them non-conforming. If a particular UA's default mode is to use a non-conforming processor then by default it is non-conforming. If the specification's conformance criteria says that one must use the conforming processor by default then that UA will strictly speaking never be conforming. I suspect MSFT can live with this distinction. If the standard says «This is how you identify a given document as “HTML5” if you are a conforming HTML5 UA.» then there will be no need for one UA to encourage its users to say «If you are the UA from “Vendor Foo”, but no other UA, I want you to use this particular, proprietary, optional behavior.» You may not have need of a way to unambiguously identify the author's intent to utilize “HTML5”, but one member of the WG has expressed a need for this functionality and it behooves us to listen very carefully and attempt to accommodate this need. Lets reference the Proposed Design Principles: “Solve Real Problems,” “Priority of Constituencies,” and “Well-Defined Behavior”. If such a significant actor needs this functionality, and it causes no direct harm to the rest of the community, then it would be — by far — preferable for the standard to accommodate him rather then force him to invent a proprietary extension (over which the WG has no say and no control). - -- “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep; But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep; And miles to go before I sleep...” -- Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.8.1 wj8DBQFGKOX4o/I+siR19ewRAt88AJ4pl97UYNw4ooQi0TF6PkAyfd7KVACgiaQm aI6JOrDSQLuYSu9M1C+tXFE=isPo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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