[whatwg] WA1: conformance checker conformance requirements

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote:
> > 
> > > Please tell me you don't expect conformance checkers to check for
> > > potentially invalid JavaScript output...
> > 
> > Obviously not, as that is mathematically impossible.
> 
> Then, please make that exception explicit in the conformance
> requirements section. Currently the only normatively allowed
> exception is for "interpretation of the author's intent" --
> and checking script output doesn't fall into that category.

This ended up being done a while back.

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