8145 2009-11-02 02:02:33 +0000 Unclear: "Certain algorithms in this specification spoon-feed the parser characters one *string* at a time." Better: "one character at a time"? 2010-10-04 14:33:29 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#parsing-xhtml-documents P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian hsivonen hun ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 29249 0 contributor 2009-11-02 02:02:33 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#parsing-xhtml-documents Comment: Unclear: "Certain algorithms in this specification spoon-feed the parser characters one *string* at a time." Better: "one character at a time"? Posted from: 84.160.114.216 29296 1 hun 2009-11-04 10:00:18 +0000 Current text: "Certain algorithms in this specification spoon-feed the parser characters one *string* at a time." Possible alternatives: "Certain algorithms in this specification spoon-feed the parser characters one at a time." "Certain algorithms in this specification spoon-feed the parser one character at a time." In many languages and systems, characters are components of strings, so feeding characters "string by string" does not make sense. 29297 2 hsivonen 2009-11-04 10:37:50 +0000 document.write() takes a string at a time. 29299 3 hsivonen 2009-11-04 11:50:24 +0000 Please disregard my previous comment. I confused this spoon feeding with another instance of spoon feeding in the spec. 30216 4 ian 2009-12-19 02:19:40 +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: The algorithms in fact feed the parser string-by-string. Strings consist of characters, so it is correct to say that characters are fed string-by-string. It's like saying that you can only eat peas one pea at a time. That's clearly wrong; You can spood-feed peas one spoon at a time, or spoon-feed a baby milliliters of baby food one spoon at a time, even if the spoon is bigger than one pea or one milliliter.