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Bug 14571 - <track> allow signature to be followed by FF for consistency in the parser
Summary: <track> allow signature to be followed by FF for consistency in the parser
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
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: 2011-10-27 11:28 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-10-27 11:28:41 UTC 
Specification: 
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#webvtt-parser-algorithm
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#webvtt-parser-algorithm

Comment:
<track> allow signature to be followed by FF for consistency in the parser

Posted from: 83.85.115.123 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 2011-10-28 08:12:48 UTC 
Alternatively, as with cache manifests, we could ban FF altogether. Henri has a preference for that.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-11-01 06:10:44 UTC 
This is the one place I am not supporting FF, because it makes sniffing way more complex for no reason.