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    <bug>
          <bug_id>8501</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2009-12-15 20:39:54 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>should make it clearer that fragment identifiers are not conforming if they don&apos;t match an id.</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 14:32:20 +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>pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>Other</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WONTFIX</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#text/html</bug_file_loc>
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          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>LC</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>contributor</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
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    <commentid>30145</commentid>
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    <who name="">contributor</who>
    <bug_when>2009-12-15 20:39:54 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#text/html

Comment:
should make it clearer that fragment identifiers are not conforming if they
don&apos;t match an id.

Posted from: 98.248.33.53</thetext>
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    <commentid>30146</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Simon Pieters">zcorpan</who>
    <bug_when>2009-12-15 21:22:53 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Why? Using the fragment to store data or state or pass parameters is awesome, and requiring an id causes unwanted scrolling.</thetext>
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    <commentid>30605</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-01-06 08:11:13 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>EDITOR&apos;S RESPONSE: This is an Editor&apos;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: Concurred with comment 1.

Discussion on this was had here:
http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20100106#l-305</thetext>
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