diff --git a/spec/html.md b/spec/html.md
index ddd1b49..bf201df 100644
--- a/spec/html.md
+++ b/spec/html.md
@@ -107,9 +107,7 @@ later release writes it as its own element.
   - Characters HTML cannot hold are dropped.
 - A node rides the carry where it holds a mark or a key its element does not write, an attribute
   its type does not hold as that kind, an empty `attrs`, `content` or `marks`, or a value its
-  element cannot hold. The exception is an inline card a link marks, in a block written as an element:
-  `adfToHtml` refuses it as `unsupported-node-shape`, since Atlassian's schema gives a card no link
-  mark and HTML nests no link in a link. In a carried block it rides the carry.
+  element cannot hold:
   - text holding no character, or a character HTML cannot hold; text holding a mark twice, or a
     mark with attributes besides a link's `href` and `title`;
   - an unmarked text node straight after one written as plain text, which would read back as one;
@@ -129,6 +127,9 @@ later release writes it as its own element.
   - a list holding a node that is no `listItem`, or an item holding a mark, text, an empty key or
     an attribute its type does not hold: the whole list rides the carry;
   - a `listItem` outside a list, an inline node in block position and a block node inline.
+- An inline card a link marks, in a block written as an element, is refused as
+  `unsupported-node-shape` instead: Atlassian's schema gives a card no link mark, and HTML nests no
+  link in a link. In a carried block it rides the carry.
 - A block carry's JSON nests at most 500 levels less the depth it stands at, an inline carry's at
   most 500, as in markdown.
 
diff --git a/src/html/emit/inline.ts b/src/html/emit/inline.ts
index 6704faf..eb690b2 100644
--- a/src/html/emit/inline.ts
+++ b/src/html/emit/inline.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export function inlineHtml(nodes: readonly AdfNode[], path: ConvertErrorPath): R
   let html = ''
   let afterPlainText = false
   for (const [index, node] of nodes.entries()) {
+    // Refused, not carried: HTML nests no link in a link. A card in a carried block never reaches here.
     if (node.type === 'inlineCard' && nodeMarks(node).some(({ type }) => type === 'link')) {
       return failure('unsupported-node-shape', 'an inlineCard takes no link mark: this one holds one', [...path, 'content', index])
     }