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Bug 23253 - Say that lack of requirement for something means must not. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Sep/0183.html
Summary: Say that lack of requirement for something means must not. See http://lists.w...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard: blocked awaiting response from zcorpa...
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-09-16 12:17 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-12-02 22:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments

Description contributor 2013-09-16 12:17:41 UTC 
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

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-09-16 17:49:16 UTC 
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?
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-09-17 20:04:03 UTC 
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.