> So effectively I _think_ you're agreeing that specifications by > themselves are more or less useless without requiring conformance from > the implementations whose results _are_ the specification as far as most > users and developers are concerned. not useless - they do serve as a specification that implementors at least consider attempting to adhere to - but this prevents neither bugs nor proprietary extensions nor failure to implement new features in a timely fashion. otoh, a requirement in the specifications to change functionality in a way which causes more pain to users (e.g. forbidding browser interpretation of improperly-labelled content) is highly likely to be ignored. KeithReceived on Friday, 31 May 2002 18:57:14 UTC
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