Re: Testability and normative requirements

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Karl Dubost wrote:
> 
> Could you give a practical example of what you would consider as a 
> non-testable normative requirement?

# [...] user agents must make a best attempt to render all characters, 
# regardless of the value specified by lang.
 -- HTML4 section 8.1.

# Those browsers that interpret soft hyphens must observe the following
# semantics: If a line is broken at a soft hyphen, a hyphen character
# must be displayed at the end of the first line. If a line is not
# broken at a soft hyphen, the user agent must not display a hyphen
# character.
 -- HTML4 section 9.3.3.

# User agents must know where to render the header and footer.
 -- HTML4 section 11.2.1.

Oh wait, you only asked for one. Oops.

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