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Bug 11951 - One part of this section says "Binary data with a file name" and another part says "optionally with a file name". So is it optional or not?
Summary: One part of this section says "Binary data with a file name" and another part...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-02-02 06:13 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:16 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-02-02 06:13:06 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dnd.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-drag-data-store

Comment:
One part of this section says "Binary data with a file name" and another part
says "optionally with a file name".  So is it optional or not?

Posted from: 67.168.94.57
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-02-25 09:06:45 UTC 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Neither part is normative (they're just descriptions of what the items in question are about), but actually it's not contradictory: "Binary data with a file name" is what it is if it's File, and there's no file name if it's just a "Plain Unicode string". So, the file name is optional.

I've changed "optionally" to "in some cases", hopefully that'll clarify this sufficiently.
Comment 2 contributor 2011-02-25 09:08:22 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5917.
Check-in comment: try to clarify this descriptive text
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5916&to=5917
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:16:04 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1