- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:49:21 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>,HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
At 05:00 AM 1/28/2009 -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >[...] >But if there are multiple documents that separately normatively >specify the same thing, then it is equally possible that they disagree >and therefore at least one of the two is wrong. If one reference is >normative and the other is not, then it is at least clear which is >authoritative when they disagree. I like your logic and agree completely. Unfortunately, you left out a subsequent consequence, to wit: it remains unclear which is correct. Having to keep two documents synchrounously correct is certainly going to require some QA effort, but that will also yield a quality product.
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