8015 2009-10-22 17:18:18 +0000 "skip all White_Space characters" - should xref to "skip White_Space characters" 2010-10-04 14:27:53 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other CLOSED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#steps-for-finding-one-or-two-numbers-of-a-ratio-in-a-string P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian excors ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 28830 0 contributor 2009-10-22 17:18:18 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#steps-for-finding-one-or-two-numbers-of-a-ratio-in-a-string Comment: "skip all White_Space characters" - should xref to "skip White_Space characters" Posted from: 128.232.100.177 28868 1 ian 2009-10-23 07:39:10 +0000 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: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: That would only work if that algorithm used 'position' and 'input'. 28875 2 excors 2009-10-23 08:34:50 +0000 Ah, true. But in that case, what does "skip all White_Space characters" mean? If the string is " x y" should it skip two whitespace characters and end up on 'y', or end up with a string "xy", or something? It needs to be defined with the same precision as the "skip White_Space characters" sub-algorithm. 28918 3 ian 2009-10-24 11:20:13 +0000 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: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 28919 4 contributor 2009-10-24 11:20:55 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4310. Check-in comment: Rewrite this algorithm to make Philip` happier (and be more consistent with the other algorithms.) http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4309&to=4310