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Re: ISSUE-53: mediatypereg - suggest closing on 2009-09-03

From: Michael(tm) Smith <mike@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:41:46 +0900
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20090827184143.GE2963@sideshowbarker>
Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, 2009-08-26 02:28 +0000:

> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> > If we actually defined each element and each attribute in the way that 
> > HTML4 does *and* define its operational behavior for the DOM then the 
> > specification would satisfy all implementations.
> 
> I don't know what it means to "define" an element if that is not to define 
> its operational behaviour.

It means defining what the element represents.

  --Mike

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