[whatwg] 'Applicable Specifications'' Relevance Authors

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Jun 11 16:10:50 PDT 2012


On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Smylers wrote:
>
> The definition of an 'applicable specification' is marked as only having 
> relevance for implementations: 
> http://www.whatwg.org/html#other-applicable-specifications
> 
> I think that the paragraph which defines an applicable specification and 
> the note that follows it are relevant to authors, too -- in particular 
> authors wondering if they can extend HTML.
> 
> Currently 'HTML5 for Web Developers' has a link 'other applicable 
> specifications' which doesn't go anywhere: 
> http://developers.whatwg.org/elements.html

I have changed the internal labeling accordingly. Let me know if you want 
even more of that section exposed to the author version.

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