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Re Web Apps. 1.0, Draft Std., Apr. 9, 2010 (as accessed Apr. 11, 2010 (copying of text or URL by browser failed over half hour possibly due to script slowness problem)) (Web Apps 1.0 seems to be functionally the editor's draft of HTML5 that used to be called more like the latter but which I can't find anymore): In section 4.2.5.1, in the subsection "keywords", the UA should ignore spaces adjacent to a token-separating comma. It is common for authors to type a space after a comma and there's no harm in expecting UA designers to accept this as a norm. Technically, the UA should loop until no token-separating comma has an adjacent space remaining, on either side and regardless of quantity of consecutive spaces. Thank you.
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: Did Not Understand Request Change Description: no spec change Rationale: Can you provide a link to the section you mean? Web Apps 1.0 section 4.2.5.1 is "Standard metadata names" and there is no section titled "keywords" that I can find. The section titled "Keywords and enumerated attributes" doesn't mention commas, and the section that defines the comma-separated list allows spaces around the comma already, so it's presumably not that section either.
You were almost there; scroll down just a little from the section number. At <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#standard-metadata-names>, as accessed Apr. 14, 2010, via "latest editor's working copy" link on <http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100304/>, per the table of contents in <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html>, item "4.2.5.1 Standard metadata names", name "keywords" (tooltip: "meta-keywords"), where it says "The value must be a set of comma-separated tokens, each of which is a keyword relevant to the page." (Web Apps. 1.0, Draft Std., 15 Apr. 2010.) Thanks.
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: no spec change Rationale: The term "a set of comma-separated tokens" is defined as allowing spaces around the commas.
You're right; I missed it (Working Draft, Mar. 4, 2010, section 2.4.8, <http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100304/infrastructure.html#comma-separated-tokens>, as accessed Apr. 15, 2010, via http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100304/ (Web Apps not checked due to recent slowness)). Now closing. Thanks.