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Bug 14541 - <track> There is no need to call out "If the tag name is the empty string" as it will be handled by "Otherwise".
Summary: <track> There is no need to call out "If the tag name is the empty string" as...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-10-22 04:10 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:48 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-10-22 04:10:11 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#webvtt-cue-text-parsing-rules
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#webvtt-cue-text-parsing-rules

Comment:
There is no need to call out "If the tag name is the empty string" as it will
be handled by "Otherwise".

Posted from: 114.48.111.229 by annevk@opera.com
User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7.1; U; en) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.51
Comment 1 Anne 2011-10-22 04:22:23 UTC 
In fact theoretically even the otherwise in the parser handling could be dropped as it will result in simply getting the next token. However for clarity we should probably keep it.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-26 00:43:12 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Done. I'd originally added this, IIRC, to make it explicit that this was something that could happen.
Comment 3 contributor 2011-10-26 00:43:22 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6765.
Check-in comment: Comment out a redundant step
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6764&to=6765