- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:50:49 -0400
- To: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Frank Ellermann scripsit: > Sure, but just because everybody does odd things in practice does > not necessarily mean that this needs to be noted in a standard. > > If they agree on an oddity, maybe, but if not, let them do what > they wish. A standard is an abstraction. Not a collection of > observed behaviour divided by statistics resulting in MUST at 80%. > > I think that is one of the problems I have when looking into an > HTML 5 draft: Some choices appear to be arbitrary, as they are > not logical. There is a fundamental difference between a prospective specification such as HTML 4 and a retrospective one such as HTML 3.2, HTML 5 (in part), RFC 1459 (IRC), or RFC 1321 (MD5). -- A witness cannot give evidence of his John Cowan age unless he can remember being born. cowan@ccil.org --Judge Blagden http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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