- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:38:24 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Chris Lilley wrote: > > Noting that your sample sentence "to conform to ..." doesn't have the > word must, buts ays that the implementation has to do blah to conform, > and then looking at the introduction to this chapter, I see > > Implementations of SVG are expected to behave as though they implement > a rendering (or imaging) model corresponding to the one described in > this chapter. "are expected to" is not a conformance criterion. A conformance criterion is something that states that implementations that act as described are conformant, and those that do not are not. Saying that something is "expected" is merely a statement of fact, it does not make any statements regarding the conformance of the implementation. However, I retract my issue as it turns out that the next sentence does actually make a normative requirement, which I missed during my initial reading. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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