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    <bug>
          <bug_id>22041</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2013-05-15 12:43:46 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>[HTML]: Constants can&apos;t be strings</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2013-07-12 22:26:01 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>HTML5 spec</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Linux</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>FIXED</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords>CR</keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          <dependson>21591</dependson>
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Dominique Hazael-Massieux">dom</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Robin Berjon">robin</assigned_to>
          <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-admin</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-wg-issue-tracking</cc>
    
    <cc>robin</cc>
    
    <cc>travil</cc>
          
          <qa_contact name="HTML WG Bugzilla archive list">public-html-bugzilla</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>87716</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Dominique Hazael-Massieux">dom</who>
    <bug_when>2013-05-15 12:43:46 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>&quot;const DOMString product = &quot;Gecko&quot;; // for historical reasons&quot;

WebIDL doesn&apos;t allow string constants; this should presumably be a readonly DOMstring instead.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>90690</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Travis Leithead [MSFT]">travil</who>
    <bug_when>2013-07-12 22:26:01 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>EDITOR&apos;S RESPONSE: This is an Editor&apos;s Response to your comment. If you are
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   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Accepted
Change Description: Swapped for readonly attribute.

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/aa8091f94546ca5500301053e4ea167d85891ae8</thetext>
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