- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:13:04 -0700
- To: Tobie Langel <tobie@fb.com>
- Cc: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, Kinuko Yasuda <kinuko@chromium.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Eric U <ericu@google.com>
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Tobie Langel <tobie@fb.com> wrote: > On Jun 27, 2012, at 6:44 AM, "Glenn Maynard" <glenn@zewt.org> wrote: >> Unrelated, screaming-caps on RFC2119 terms (eg. "MUST") is jarring and unnecessary. I'd suggest dropping the em.rfc2119 style. That's what HTML, DOM4, etc. do, and it's much more readable. > > How do you distinguish between 'MUST' and 'must' then? I agree the style is jarring, but maybe that can be fixed rather then completely removed. You don't distinguish - "must"/"should"/"may" should *only* be used in their RFC2119 meaning. If you want to use one of those words casually, use a synonym instead, like "can". ~TJ
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