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Bug 12977 - Step 6 of the legacy color parsing rules is unnecessary, as 3-digit hex colors will be successfully parsed by the general case further down.
Summary: Step 6 of the legacy color parsing rules is unnecessary, as 3-digit hex color...
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: 2011-06-17 18:23 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:12 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-06-17 18:23:15 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/common-microsyntaxes.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#colors

Comment:
Step 6 of the legacy color parsing rules is unnecessary, as 3-digit hex colors
will be successfully parsed by the general case further down.

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Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2011-06-17 22:02:22 UTC 
What do you mean successfully? The rules further down are different (zero-pads instead of multiplying).
Comment 2 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-06-17 22:04:56 UTC 
Oh, huh.  Indeed they are.  That means I'm doing something wrong.  IGNORE ME.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:12:18 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1