- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 19:38:37 -0700
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: >> >> Ian and Anne both suggested that I should add most of this justification to >> the Design Principles document itself. I will likely replace the current >> abstract and introduction with something based on this email. I suggest that >> those with an interest in the Design Principles should voice their >> objections to this plan. >> >> There are also some suggested additions and removals of principles at the >> end. > > I would love it if we had a design principle that described the fact > that we're writing the spec to support the authors that tests their > pages by running them in a browser, rather than by checking that they > comply with the spec. > > See a more detailed description in [1], but the short of it is that we > are generally avoiding leaving things explicitly or implicitly > undefined and hoping that authors won't rely on it. Instead we are > trying to define things in great detail to increase the chances that a > HTML document that works in one complying HTML UA, will also work in > another. Doh! Just realized that this is exactly what principle 4.1 is. I'll see if I can come up with wording to make it stronger. / Jonas
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