Re: Info from HTML5 editors: merging WHATWG patches

2012/9/9 Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>:
> this involves a conformance change and also reverts a WG decision:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0377.html
>
> suggest that this change not be made.

I agree with Steve here, but I have some questions about changes like
this that affects conformance. If we take the border attribute for
example how will validators handle this example now that both
specifications use <!DOCTYPE html>:

<table border="1">

And how can document authors select which set of conformance
requirements that they want the document to be checked against. Isn’t
it time for one of the specifications to switch to a different doctype
identifier so that it is possible to specify this?

Received on Sunday, 9 September 2012 18:27:28 UTC