[whatwg] Modal dialogs in HTML5

[Philipp Serafin]

timeless schrieb:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Philipp Serafin <phil127 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Well, you could still phrase it something along the lines of "The size of a
>> popup document's viewport SHOULD be calculated using the CSS shrink wrap
>> algorithm... etc etc".
>>     
>
> as an embedder of a browser for a small device, i do *not* want such a
> requirement
>   
Hence why it would be a SHOULD and not a MUST.

RFC 2119:  "This word [...] mean[s] that there may exist valid reasons 
in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item [...]"

Cheers,
Philipp Serafin