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Bug 16427 - Please review the following "2. Inner loop: If inner loop counter is greater than or equal to three, then abort these steps." It is not exactly clear WHICH steps should be aborted (inner loop steps or outer loop steps). Please clarify. Thank you.
Summary: Please review the following "2. Inner loop: If inner loop counter is greater ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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: 2012-03-19 05:24 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-25 03:54 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-03-19 05:24:14 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#parsing-main-inbody
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#parsing-main-inbody

Comment:
Please review the following "2. Inner loop: If inner loop counter is greater
than or equal to three, then abort these steps." It is not exactly clear WHICH
steps should be aborted (inner loop steps or outer loop steps). Please
clarify. Thank you.

Posted from: 82.192.88.2 by manish.tripathi.777@gmail.com
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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:15:31 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18094 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-25 03:54:41 UTC 
Yeah... I think I meant the inner loop. I hope I meant the inner loop...
Comment 3 contributor 2012-09-25 03:54:49 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7401.
Check-in comment: Try to clarify the algorithm. I really hope I got the right clarification. There's a risk I did not. I would really like feedback from implementors who have implemented this to make sure they agree with my clarification.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7400&to=7401