"may ignore markup"

Hi,

I just read through http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-notifications-20110301/

I'm not a developer myself, but one thing that struck me were the  
descriptions of the title and body parameters:

title	DOMString	 Primary text, or title, of the notification. The user  
agent may ignore any markup in this string and treat it as plain text.
body	DOMString	 Secondary text, or body, of the notification. The user  
agent may ignore any markup in this string and treat it as plain text.

What does 'ignore' mean here? Could this:
   "Example <foo> <strong>text</strong>"

be shown literally as
   "Example <foo> text <strong>text</strong>"

or as
   "Example <foo> text"
(known HTML markup stripped)

or as
   "Example text"
(any markup stripped)

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Received on Wednesday, 2 March 2011 14:20:52 UTC