23253 2013-09-16 12:17:41 +0000 Say that lack of requirement for something means must not. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Sep/0183.html 2013-12-02 22:22:43 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#conformance-requirements blocked awaiting response from zcorpan to comment 3 (please remove this when replying) P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 93422 0 contributor 2013-09-16 12:17:41 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#conformance-requirements Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#conformance-requirements Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ Comment: Say that lack of requirement for something means must not. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Sep/0183.html Posted from: 90.230.218.37 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.22 Safari/537.36 OPR/17.0.1241.11 (Edition Next) 93435 1 ian 2013-09-16 17:49:16 +0000 Um, this isn't generally true. The spec doesn't say that authors are allowed to eat food while writing HTML, but your HTML docs are still conforming even if you're eating food while writing HTML. What specific constraint did you have in mind that the spec doesn't explicitly restrict? 93453 2 zcorpan 2013-09-16 21:06:54 +0000 e.g. http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-May/035776.html 93502 3 ian 2013-09-17 20:04:03 +0000 I don't understand which part of that e-mail is a lack of a must not requirement... it seems to be about people thinking the spec implies they should do things that the spec doesn't mention, which seems to be a different problem.