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          <bug_id>8710</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2010-01-11 15:03:43 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>option . text: c/p&apos;d too much; also add a line in the IDL [ms]</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 14:46:21 +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>CLOSED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WONTFIX</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-a-element</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <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>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>Ms2ger</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-admin</cc>
    
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    <commentid>30923</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="">contributor</who>
    <bug_when>2010-01-11 15:03:43 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-a-element

Comment:
option . text: c/p&apos;d too much; also add a line in the IDL [ms]

Posted from: 91.180.142.166</thetext>
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    <commentid>30927</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ms2ger">Ms2ger</who>
    <bug_when>2010-01-11 15:45:36 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>And HTMLAnchorElement.text is readonly.</thetext>
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    <commentid>31577</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-02-06 02:28:12 +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: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: I fixed the copy/paste issues, and added it to the IDL, but I made it read/write to make implementing it easier (as an alias to textContent).</thetext>
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    <commentid>31578</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="">contributor</who>
    <bug_when>2010-02-06 02:28:33 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Checked in as WHATWG revision r4679.
Check-in comment: Correct the xrefs and update the IDL.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4678&amp;to=4679
</thetext>
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    <commentid>31601</commentid>
    <comment_count>4</comment_count>
    <who name="Ms2ger">Ms2ger</who>
    <bug_when>2010-02-06 14:42:29 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>2 out of 3 implementations (Gecko and WebKit) implement it as readonly, so I think changing that isn&apos;t going to make implementing easier, rather to the contrary.</thetext>
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    <commentid>32044</commentid>
    <comment_count>5</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-02-14 10:27:42 +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: If those two implementations are a majority of the implementations of HTML for the lifetime of HTML, then we&apos;ll have failed dramatically. The whole point of defining HTML to this level of detail is to encourage competition by making it easier to write new Web browsers.</thetext>
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