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Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#is-this-html5? Comment: non-normative? this sounds confusing and vauge... Posted from: 115.184.8.102
Maybe "This section has no conformance requirements."?
It's not just that it has no conformance requirements... it has no effect whatsoever. "Normative" is the word used throughout specdom to refer to this, and is the word used in section "2.2 Conformance requirements" to invoke everything, so I don't really see what's wrong with "non-normative". It's not like we're using the word incorrectly. This is what it means. If people don't know what it means, they should read a dictionary or something. :-) EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: It's not our job to teach people English.