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Each input element is either mutable or immutable. Except where otherwise specified, an input element is always mutable. Similarly, except where otherwise specified, the user agent should not allow the user to modify the element's value or checkedness. Is the second sentence referring to immutable objects? "Similarly" seems to say that it applies to mutable elements, but contradicts the first sentence.
mass-move component to LC1
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: "Similarly" doesn't mean anything other than "in a similar way", it doesn't have any normative implications. The second sentence is saying that nothing is editable unless the spec says so elsewhere. (It says so for most of the input types under specific conditions, such as the condition that the element is mutable.)