- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:07:36 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Smylers wrote: > > Conformance checkers must use the information given on the WHATWG Wiki > MetaExtensions page to establish if a value not explicitly defined in > this specification is allowed or not. > > -- http://www.whatwg.org/html5#other-metadata-names > > I think we should allow conformance checkers which can be run on local > files without an internet connection, but the above appears to deem them > non-conforming. > > The general conformance requirements include this get-out clause, but it > isn't broad enough to cover this case: > > User agents may impose implementation-specific limits on otherwise > unconstrained inputs, e.g. to prevent denial of service attacks, to > guard against running out of memory, or to work around > platform-specific limitations. > > -- http://www.whatwg.org/html5#conformance-requirements Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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