what's the meaning of lighter blue thick underlined terms in some specs?

Hi,

I notice in at least some specs produced by y'all, such as..

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/


..there are some terms that are underlined with lighter blue thick lines, 
but which are not links, and are not explicitly defined within those specs.

e.g, a few from [1] "absolute url", "tasks", "event loops"; and a few from 
[2] "origin", "task source", "same".

in looking at the source the specs are renderede from, in each case such 
terms are enclosed by <span>...</span>, like so..

   <span>origin</span>


It seems like this markup is being used to signal that the term is defined 
in another spec (eg HTML5, URL), but there's not cross-spec linking nor 
explicit explanation that this is the case, so I'm guessing.

Does anyone have insight on this?

thanks,

=JeffH

Received on Sunday, 23 August 2015 21:52:19 UTC