- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 06:40:11 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, David Woolley wrote: >> >> Specifications should define what UAs should do in _any_ scenario. The >> CSS, XML, and SVG specs are quite well defined in that regard. The HTML >> specs have traditionally been quite vague in that area. > > There is a perfectly valid case for specifications to leave things > implemenation dependent Yeah, I should have mentioned that. There are of course many aspects that are out of scope of specifications, or that can, as you say, be define quite abstractly. I was talking more about things like how to parse invalid HTML, or how to handle many of HTML's attributes, neither of which should be out of scope for HTML. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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