[css2] Issue 186 (QA guidelines by Tim Boland)

bert-github · bert-github · commit 13a5bd29ca1a · 2006-06-02T18:30:14.000Z
Ad req 1:

Changed 3.2 "Conformance" to "UA Conformance" to make it clear what is
required to conform.

Ad req 3:

Added that an authoring tool is a kind of user agent.

Ad req 5:

Added a definition for "property."

Changed "support one or more of the media types" to "recognize one or
more of the media types" and "supported media" to "recognized media".

Not changed anything to clarify what "attempt to retrieve" means. I
think it is reasonably clear. If a UA under test doesn't apply a style
sheet it is supposed to apply and yet another program on the same
machine at approximately the same time succeeds in reading the style
sheet, then the UA is probably not conformant. The more often this
happens, the higher the probability that the UA is not conformant.

Ad req 6:

Nothing changed. The conformance section already defines a few classes
of UAs and the various CSS profiles (TV, print, mobile) define more.

Ad req 7, 8, 9, 10:

Nothing changed.

Ad req 11:

Nothing changed. Is it necessary to say what CSS is not (viz., not
extensible)?

It might be possible to add a paragraph somewhere that says that,
although the CSS syntax is designed to accomodate future extensions,
users and authors cannot extend CSS, because it has no mechanisms to
define the semantics of new features (other than the W3C
Recommendation process).

Ad req 12:

Changed 18.2 "CSS2 System Colors" to "System Colors" (in ui.src)

Ad req 13:

Nothing changed. (The only deprecated feature in CSS 2.1 is the
'aural' media type and the appendix clearly says that it doesn't
affect conformance.)

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diff --git a/css2/conform.src b/css2/conform.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: conform.src,v 2.71 2006-01-31 19:13:32 bbos Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: conform.src,v 2.72 2006-06-02 18:30:14 bbos Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Conformance: requirements and recommendations</TITLE>
@@ -243,20 +243,20 @@ element|element::following">Following element</span></strong>
 <dd>An element A is called a following element of an element B, if and
 only if B is a preceding element of A.
 
-<dt><strong><strong><a name="author">Author</a></strong></strong>
+<dt><strong><a name="author">Author</a></strong>
 <dd>An author is a person who writes
 documents and associated style sheets. An 
 <span class="index-def" title="authoring tool"><strong>authoring tool</strong></span>
-generates documents and associated style sheets.</dd>
+is a <a href="#user-agent">User Agent</a> that generates style sheets.</dd>
 
-<dt><strong><strong><a name="user">User</a></strong></strong> 
+<dt><strong><a name="user">User</a></strong> 
 <dd> A user is a person who interacts with a user agent to view, hear, or
 otherwise use a document and its associated style sheet. The user
 may provide a personal style sheet that encodes personal
 preferences.
 </dd>
 
-<dt><strong><strong><a name="user-agent">User agent (UA)</a></strong></strong>
+<dt><strong><a name="user-agent">User agent (UA)</a></strong>
 <dd>A <span class="index-def" title="user agent|UA">user
 agent</span> is any program that interprets a document written in
 the document language and applies associated style sheets according
@@ -270,6 +270,17 @@ but not HTML (as listed in the previous sentence) is not considered an
 HTML user agent for the purpose of conformance with this
 specification.
 
+<dt><strong><a name="property">Property</a></strong>
+
+<dd>CSS defines a finite set of parameters, called properties, that
+direct the rendering of a document. Each property has a name (e.g.,
+'color', 'font' or border') and a value (e.g., 'red', '12pt Times' or
+'dotted'). Properties are attached to various parts of the document
+and to the page on which the document is to be displayed by the
+mechanisms of specificity, cascading and inheritance (see the chapter
+on <a href="cascade.html">Assigning property values, Cascading, and
+Inheritance</a>).
+
 </dl>
 
 <div class="html-example">
@@ -312,7 +323,7 @@ end tags.
 
 
 
-<h2><a name="conformance">Conformance</a></h2>
+<h2><a name="conformance">UA Conformance</a></h2>
 
 <P>This section defines <span class="index-def"
 title="conformance">conformance</span> with the CSS&nbsp;2.1
@@ -325,10 +336,10 @@ claiming conformance to this specification:</P>
 
 <ol>
 
-<li>It must support one or more of the CSS&nbsp;2.1 <a href="media.html">media types</a>.
+<li>It must recognize one or more of the CSS&nbsp;2.1 <a href="media.html">media types</a>.
 
 <li>For each source document, it must attempt to retrieve all 
-associated style sheets that are appropriate for the supported media
+associated style sheets that are appropriate for the recognized media
 types. If it cannot retrieve all associated style sheets (for instance,
 because of network errors), it must display the document using those
 it can retrieve.
diff --git a/css2/ui.src b/css2/ui.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: ui.src,v 2.34 2005-08-27 09:25:58 ihickson Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: ui.src,v 2.35 2006-06-02 18:30:14 bbos Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <title>User interface</title>
@@ -94,10 +94,10 @@ If that cursor format was also not supported, the UA would skip to the next valu
 
 
 
-<h2><a name="system-colors">CSS2 System Colors</a></h2>
+<h2><a name="system-colors">System Colors</a></h2>
 
 <div class="note"><p><em><strong>Note.</strong> 
-The CSS2 System Colors are 
+The System Colors are 
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-color-20030514/#css2-system">deprecated in the CSS3 Color Module</a>.
 </em></p>
 </div>
