(Conditional) MUST for rendering

• From: Martin J. Dürst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
• Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:23:02 +0100 (MET)
• To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
• cc: Scott Isaacs <scotti@microsoft.com>, "'w3c-html-wg@w3.org'" <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>, w3c-wai-hc@w3.org
• Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.971028122110.245b-100000@enoshima.ifi.unizh.ch>

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Dan Connolly wrote:

> Strictly speaking, all the rendering information in the
> HTML spec is hints/suggestions; i.e. SHOULD, not MUST.
> (I need to verify that, but that's my understanding.)

Just for completeness:

There are things like "you must use the BIDI algorithm if
you are going to show RTL characters". Conditional, but
a MUST.

Regards,	Martin.

Received on Tuesday, 28 October 1997 06:23:45 UTC