- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:20:30 +0100
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Robert O'Callahan wrote: > concern him/herself with everything that an author might do, "consistent > with the specification" or not. (And it is the duty of the spec author > to ensure that specifications prescribe behaviour for everything an > author might do, so that question does not arise.) > This is something that is special to the modern web. Most other standards make heavy reliance on defining areas where behaviour is explicitly undefined. It is probably impossible, because there will always be combinations the specifiers forgot and get implemented differently. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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