- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 23:44:38 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
- Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, www-tag@w3.org, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Jonathan Rees wrote: > > The HTML5 draft is careful to say "This specification describes the > conformance criteria for user agents and documents" omitting any mention > of authors. [...] > > The words "authors must" occur several more times in the draft but in > each case (other than the one I quote) the constraint can be > operationalized as a constraint on documents, not on authors. (In fact, > since the constraint is only on authors, not documents, this allows for > the existence of conforming documents that cannot be generated by any > conforming author!) I've added a clarification to HTML5 to explicitly say that conformance requirements on authors are equivalent to conformance requirements on documents. The distinction was not intended to be meaningful. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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