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Bug 8982 - Unclear what features are required for user agents
Summary: Unclear what features are required for user agents
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML+RDFa (editor: Manu Sporny) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Manu Sporny
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/#user-ag...
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Reported: 2010-02-14 06:45 UTC by Maciej Stachowiak
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:06 UTC (History)
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Description Maciej Stachowiak 2010-02-14 06:45:04 UTC
Section 3.2 User Agent Conformance says HTML+RDFa UAs must:

"Implement all of the features required by this specification.

Implement all of the features specified in the XHTML+RDFa specification, excluding those features which are specifically overridden by this specification as detailed in the Modifications to XHTML+RDFa."

However, I could not find any features in these specifications that are specifically required for user agents, as opposed to for RDFa processors. Is there a difference between being a conforming HTML+RDFa processor and a conforming HTML+RDFa  user agent?
Comment 1 Manu Sporny 2010-02-16 04:24:11 UTC
RDFA-SPEC-SECTIONS [user-agent-conformance]
Comment 2 Manu Sporny 2010-05-03 03:15:10 UTC
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Status: Fixed

Change Description: 

Added opening paragraph to User Agent Conformance section:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/drafts/ED-rdfa-in-html-20100502/#user-agent-conformance

A User Agent is considered to be a type of RDFa Processor when the User Agent stores or processes RDFa attributes and their values. The reason there are separate RDFa Processor Conformance and a User Agent Conformance sections is because one can be a valid HTML5 RDFa Processor but not a valid HTML5 User Agent (for example, by only providing a very small subset of rendering functionality).

Rationale:

Explained the difference between an RDFa Processor and a User Agent. The example isn't as good as I'd like it to be... perhaps there is a better example of something that is capable of processing an HTML+RDFa document, but is not seen as a conforming HTML5 User Agent?
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:06:12 UTC
mass-move component to LC1