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Bug 12284 - How about call the new standard "HML". Then my "C" program won't have to check for a '4 or 3' character word. we will already know the word is 3 characters.
Summary: How about call the new standard "HML". Then my "C" program won't have to chec...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
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: 2011-03-10 15:31 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:03 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-03-10 15:31:08 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/introduction.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#html-vs-xhtml

Comment:
How about call the new standard "HML". Then my "C" program won't have to check
for a '4 or 3' character word. we will already know the word is 3 characters.

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Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-03-10 17:14:44 UTC 
I can only conjecture that this is talking about some extremely fragile program that checks for the existence of XML or HTML by checking the length of some word.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:03:55 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1