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Bug 27514 - "IE=edge" case-sensitivity
Summary: "IE=edge" case-sensitivity
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
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Reported: 2014-12-04 13:03 UTC by Simon Pieters
Modified: 2015-08-28 18:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Simon Pieters 2014-12-04 13:03:43 UTC
https://html5.org/r/8870#diff

[[
+    <code data-x="attr-meta-content">content</code> attribute must have the value "<code
+    data-x="">IE=edge</code>".</p>
]]

Allow ASCII-case-insensitive match? (It seems v.nu implemented it as such.)
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2014-12-07 16:31:53 UTC
(In reply to Simon Pieters from comment #0)
> https://html5.org/r/8870#diff
> 
> [[
> +    <code data-x="attr-meta-content">content</code> attribute must have the
> value "<code
> +    data-x="">IE=edge</code>".</p>
> ]]
> 
> Allow ASCII-case-insensitive match? (It seems v.nu implemented it as such.)

Yeah, v.nu implements ASCII-case-insensitive matching for this value.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-12-19 23:04:13 UTC
does IE implement case-insensitive match? IIRC I just specced what their docs said.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2014-12-22 07:56:49 UTC
(In reply to Ian 'Hixie' Hickson from comment #2)
> does IE implement case-insensitive match? IIRC I just specced what their
> docs said.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj676915.aspx
> The X-UA-Compatible header isn't case sensitive; however, it must appear
> in the header of the webpage (the HEAD section) before all other elements
> except for the title element and other meta elements.

(Where by "header" they mean the meta element.)
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2015-08-28 18:56:56 UTC
See https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/37