On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Liam Quin <liam(_at_)w3(_dot_)org> wrote:
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:29:33AM -0700, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
And what if there are two good books that say different things about a
feature? Isn't then the spec the "true source" to be used in resolving
any such ambiguities?
Not always -- you have to compare what implementations actually do in
such cases; sometimes the best anser is to change the specification to
reflect actual implementations.
We are *not* comparing worms and apples here.
By "resolving ambiguities" of two different implementations of a
feature I mean deciding which of them is compliant and which not
(wasn't this clear?).
Even if in a particular case the answer is that both implementations
are not compliant, the base for giving such an answer still will be
the spec that the implementations implement.
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Dimitre Novatchev
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