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Bug 14536 - <track> Characters in the range 0-9, a-Z can simply be one of "ampltg" as those are the only characters that matter.
Summary: <track> Characters in the range 0-9, a-Z can simply be one of "ampltg" as tho...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-10-22 02:39 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2018-10-29 06:12 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-10-22 02:39:24 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#webvtt-escape-state
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#webvtt-escape-state

Comment:
Characters in the range 0-9, a-Z can simply be one of "ampltg" as those are
the only characters that matter.

Posted from: 114.48.111.229 by annevk@opera.com
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.904.0 Safari/535.7
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-25 23:23:17 UTC 
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: Doing it this way makes it easier to add new escapes later.
Comment 2 Anne 2011-11-02 13:46:21 UTC 
Do you mean for you? Because the handling is not any different.