[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 Editorial [minor] Abstract -> Section 2

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Jun 16 08:59:15 PDT 2004


On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Jim Ley wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:25:13 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > >    Web Forms 2.0 >extends< both HTML and XHTML
> >
> > That changes the meaning quite drastically. The point of the sentence is
> > that it applies to both HTML and XHTML UAs, not that it extends any spec,
> > something which is covered earlier.
>
> You introduce new elements into the XHTML namespace, that's extending
> XHTML, not the UAs.

I totally agree. And the spec claims this in another part of the spec. The
original sentence edited above didn't say anything about extending
anything, it said that it _applied_ to HTML and XHTML UAs.

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