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Bug 12337 - "are to be" and "are not to be" should be "should be" and "should not be" respectively, for consistency with the following paragraphs.
Summary: "are to be" and "are not to be" should be "should be" and "should not be" res...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-03-18 22:23 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:04 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-03-18 22:23:47 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-details-open

Comment:
"are to be" and "are not to be" should be "should be" and "should not be"
respectively, for consistency with the following paragraphs.

Posted from: 2620:0:1000:147c:fa1e:dfff:fedd:ce8d by ian@hixie.ch
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.0 Safari/534.24
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-05-06 21:55:34 UTC 
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: The "are to" bit is the non-normative description for authors. The "should" bit is the normative requirement for implementors. The word "should" has special meaning; search the introduction for "2119" for details.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:04:00 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1