- From: Manuel Amador <rudd-o@rudd-o.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:08:54 -0500
El Mi? 12 Dic 2007, Robert Sayre escribi?: > On Dec 11, 2007 6:51 PM, David Hyatt <hyatt at apple.com> wrote: > > SHOULD is toothless. > > Spefications aren't laws. MUSTs are toothless as well. > > > It carries absolutely no weight. I don't think > > it's appropriate for such weak language to be in the HTML5 spec. It > > should either be a MUST (which is inappropriate at this juncture for > > reasons that Dave Singer. Ian Hickson and myself have posted about in > > previous messages) or just not be mentioned at all. > > It isn't weak language. It places the blame squarely on the party who > fails to meet the requirement. Agreed with you, Robert. If SHOULD carries absolutely no weight... then why don't we just leave the paragraph there? Stop eluding this question. Oh, prepare for a barrage of uneducated comments. My article just hit Digg front page and is climbing rapidly in diggs. I edited the text on the article a bit to discourage uneducated participation on the list. -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <rudd-o at rudd-o.com> Rudd-O.com - http://rudd-o.com/ GPG key ID 0xC8D28B92 at http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ Q: How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master stays out of the way. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20071212/e3992731/attachment.pgp>
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