- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:44:44 -0500
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- CC: HTMLwg <public-html@w3.org>
On 12/31/09 8:34 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > Also, right now, with they way the spec is written, it's > not a bug, because it's spec conformant. Why? Not all "correct" software behavior is required by specs, so not all bugs are bugs just because they're violations of a spec. For example, crashing is generally considered a bug, but is not prohibited by any specs in the usual case. Using up all the user's memory: same thing (in fact, sometimes specs actually require it). I can understand the desire to have the spec make it clear that lack of autobuffer attribute means the author is requesting that the UA not autobuffer the content. It must remain conformant to autobuffer in such a situation based on user settings, just like it must remain conformant to not autobuffer based on user settings even if @autobuffer is set. -Boris
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