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Bug 17438 - the term "hand authored" is undefined and ambiguous
Summary: the term "hand authored" is undefined and ambiguous
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: a11y_text-alt
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Reported: 2012-06-07 14:48 UTC by Michael[tm] Smith
Modified: 2012-09-28 14:22 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Michael[tm] Smith 2012-06-07 14:48:53 UTC 
The specification introduces the authoring-conformance constraint that a meta generator element must not be used on "hand-authored" pages. However, it does not define what a "hand-authored" page is, and the definition of that term is not obvious.
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:10:31 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17876 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Robin Berjon 2012-09-18 12:27:31 UTC 
I can't find this in the spec — is it still open?
Comment 3 steve faulkner 2012-09-18 12:45:09 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> I can't find this in the spec — is it still open?

think it was dealt with here https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/151feec6e34378f13edd279a0c9f7392016dfd24
Comment 4 Robin Berjon 2012-09-18 12:58:53 UTC 
I thought that was the case, thanks Steve!

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Status: Accepted
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Comment 5 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-09-28 09:37:01 UTC 
The WHATWG spec made some clarifications on the "hand-authored" text. Do we want to adopt that?

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/44081c783e869419053d6618b8154ad16b483abf
Comment 6 steve faulkner 2012-09-28 09:50:50 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> The WHATWG spec made some clarifications on the "hand-authored" text. Do we
> want to adopt that?
> 
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/44081c783e869419053d6618b8154ad16b483abf

the new changes do not make it any clearer as many HTML editing applications have both WYSIWYG and code editing features ( for example: dreamweaver or the default wordpress editor). So there is no way to determine if some or all of the HTML has been 'hand authored'.
Comment 7 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-09-28 14:22:16 UTC 
Note: I'm not asking for it to replace the issue-206 commit - just to add to it.

Could also be further clarified.