- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:16:15 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Kornel <kornel@geekhood.net>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Dan Connolly wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 18:25 -0400, Rob Sayre wrote: > > On 6/12/09 6:22 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, John Foliot wrote: > > > > I pose a serious question: what is the real benefit of making unescaped > > > > ampersands non-conformant? (Of making anything "non-conformant"?) > > > > > > It defines what QA tools like conformance checkers should highlight > > > as problems, as an aid to authors who wish to catch mistakes they > > > did not intend. That's it. > > > > That's called a lint tool. You don't understand what MUST means. > > I don't doubt that he knows what it means, but I agree he's using it > oddly HTML5 uses "MUST" in the same way HTML4 and CSS2 do, far as I can tell. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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