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Bug 17304 - Over-specification in "Page load processing model for text files"
Summary: Over-specification in "Page load processing model for text files"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-p...
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Reported: 2012-06-04 13:13 UTC by Julian Reschke
Modified: 2012-09-14 10:49 UTC (History)
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Description Julian Reschke 2012-06-04 13:13:54 UTC 
Section 5.6.4, "Page load processing model for text files", currently requires UAs to re-use the <plaintext> handler to handle content of type text/plain.

This makes it impossible (*) to improve handling of text/plain, such as for:

- handling format=flowed (RFC 3676),

- handling FF characters for printing (see <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92250>), and

- handling text/plain fragment identifiers (RFC 5147).

I believe the spec should allow the UA to augment the document with markup as long as the displayed text is not affected.

(*) Unless the improvement could be done using CSS, which doesn't seem to be the case for the examples mentioned above.
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:10:11 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17874 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Robin Berjon 2012-09-14 10:49:29 UTC 
Same decision as https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17874