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Bug 12677 - Should drop "The link types that contain no U+003A COLON characters (:), including all those defined in this specification, are ASCII case-insensitive values, and must be compared as such." since it's meaningless (nothing specifies anything about colons h
Summary: Should drop "The link types that contain no U+003A COLON characters (:), incl...
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: 2011-05-18 07:57 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-17 05:00 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-05-18 07:57:44 UTC
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#linkTypes

Comment:
Should drop "The link types that contain no U+003A COLON characters (:),
including all those defined in this specification, are ASCII case-insensitive
values, and must be compared as such." since it's meaningless (nothing
specifies anything about colons having any other meaning.)

Posted from: 76.102.14.57 by ian@hixie.ch
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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:34:13 UTC
mass-move component to LC1
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-17 04:59:01 UTC
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: still have to have it say it's case insensitive, but the colon bit can be removed
Comment 3 contributor 2011-08-17 05:00:50 UTC
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6486.
Check-in comment: Remove pointless part of this requirement.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6485&to=6486