[whatwg] Is Scope Sufficient? (Re: Dual mode for client?)

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Mon Jan 1 07:05:06 PST 2007


On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:28:05 +0100, Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at gmail.com>  
wrote:
>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#scope
>
> Thanks (btw, the spec is so big and slows my browser so much that I don't
> refer to it as often as I should because it is just too painful to do so.
> ;-)  But I note that that section is non-normative.

I'm not sure what it would mean if it was normative...


> That said, I'd like to question if the scope is actually sufficient?  If  
> one of the realities of the HTML5 spec is dealing with tag soup, I would  
> think that a scope that does not attempt to address that issue is A Bad  
> Thing(tm).

I think that's covered by "markup language", but perhaps it could  
elaborate on that. This strays away from the original question though.


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Anne van Kesteren
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