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          <bug_id>10626</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2010-09-13 19:47:37 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>non-normative? this sounds confusing and vauge...</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 14:48:57 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
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          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>Other</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WONTFIX</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#is-this-html5?</bug_file_loc>
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          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
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          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>contributor</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
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    <commentid>38990</commentid>
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    <bug_when>2010-09-13 19:47:37 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>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</thetext>
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    <commentid>39272</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Simon Pieters">zcorpan</who>
    <bug_when>2010-09-24 09:27:46 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Maybe &quot;This section has no conformance requirements.&quot;?</thetext>
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    <commentid>39289</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-09-24 14:48:58 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>It&apos;s not just that it has no conformance requirements... it has no effect whatsoever. &quot;Normative&quot; is the word used throughout specdom to refer to this, and is the word used in section &quot;2.2 Conformance requirements&quot; to invoke everything, so I don&apos;t really see what&apos;s wrong with &quot;non-normative&quot;. It&apos;s not like we&apos;re using the word incorrectly. This is what it means. If people don&apos;t know what it means, they should read a dictionary or something. :-)

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It&apos;s not our job to teach people English.</thetext>
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