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Bug 21750 - "If the meta element has no content attribute, or if that attribute's value is the empty string, then abort these steps." --Probably should be ".. or if that attribute's value is the empty string or c [...]
Summary: "If the meta element has no content attribute, or if that attribute's value i...
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: 2013-04-19 06:49 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-06-04 20:27 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-04-19 06:49:54 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#table-http-equiv
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#table-http-equiv
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/index.html

Comment:
"If the meta element has no content attribute, or if that attribute's value is
the empty string, then abort these steps." --Probably should be ".. or if that
attribute's value is the empty string or consists only of whitespace .."
Otherwise, the algorithm could set the pragma-set default language to an empty
string, which may not be intended.

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Comment 1 contributor 2013-06-04 20:27:23 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7894.
Check-in comment: Don't set the language when it's just spaces.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7893&to=7894