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Bug 14542 - <track> In "If token is an end tag" the wording "then let current be the parent node of current of the parent node of current" is confusing and should likely read "then let current be the parent of current's parent". That is how I implement it anyway.
Summary: <track> In "If token is an end tag" the wording "then let current be the pare...
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 04:19 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:48 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-10-22 04:19:57 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:
In "If token is an end tag" the wording "then let current be the parent node
of current of the parent node of current" is confusing and should likely read
"then let current be the parent of current's parent". That is how I implement
it anyway.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-25 23:39:52 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Uh yeah, the old text made no sense.
Comment 2 contributor 2011-10-25 23:40:27 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6760.
Check-in comment: copypasta
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6759&to=6760