Hi Ben, >Can you give an example of desirable/necessary/inevitable behavior >that you think would be disallowed by the current requirements but >allowed by this change? I use adobe dreamweaver as it provides a range of tools to aid me in code editing, it allows me to create HTML5 documents. i assume it cannot be considered as conforming HTML5 document because I often i create save and publish non confroming HTML5 documents. A developer at any point in the document edting lifecycle may want to save and publish a HTML5 document that is non conforming for various reasons. A developer may want to inlcude 3rd part scirpted widgets in a HTML5 document, for example they use a DOJO widget which contains custom attributes. in any of the above a conforming HTML5 authoring tool would be useless if it could not emit the documents. regards Stevef On 5 August 2012 18:59, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I would suggest replacing the current MUST emit conforming HTML5 > documents > > with 'MUST allow and should encourage authors to produce conforming > > documents'. > > Can you give an example of desirable/necessary/inevitable behavior > that you think would be disallowed by the current requirements but > allowed by this change? > > > I am aware of this and am not talking about the cases where author > intent is > > not known or not discernable. I agree that as much guidance as is > necessary > > is provided to authoring tool vendors , but to say "HTML5 authoring tools > > MUST NOT emit documents that do not conform to HTML5" is taking > theortical > > purity to its limits. It is just not practical in any sense to expect any > > authoring tool to abide by this condition. If I am incorrect in this > > assumption I am happy to be disabused. > > If that quotation were all the spec said, I'd definitely agree, but > the spec goes on to add all sorts of qualifications (unquoted) that > lessen the impossibility of that MUST. It's not clear to me what > precisely you think is insufficient about those qualifications. Can > you elaborate? > > -- > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com | www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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