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Bug 17837 - cors settings attribute - unclear meaning of 'omitted'
Summary: cors settings attribute - unclear meaning of 'omitted'
Status: CLOSED 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.w3.org/TR/html5/urls.html#...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 06:59 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-28 04:18 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 06:59:46 UTC
This was was cloned from bug 16575 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-03-29 22:53:00 +0000
Original reporter: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>

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 #0   Glenn Adams                                     2012-03-29 22:53:25 +0000 
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Because attribute is not qualified as a "content attribute" in 2.7.5, it isn't clear what is meant by 'omitted'. Suggest making it explicit this is a content attribute being referred to.

It would also be useful to add a note that the "CORS settings attribute" is concretely realized only in the @crossorigin content attribute declared on the img, video, and audio element types.
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 #1   Boris Zbarsky                                   2012-03-30 09:07:58 +0000 
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Gecko implements CORS settings attributes on <script> (@crossorigin) as well.  And likely soon on <link> and maybe <style>.
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Comment 1 Glenn Adams 2012-09-27 00:39:45 UTC
Please provide reason for "WONTFIX".
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-28 03:45:41 UTC
As a general rule, if you want specific responses, please send feedback to the WHATWG list. I do not guarantee feedback on bugs, only that I will consider the bugs.

The reason for the WONTFIX in this case is that it doesn't matter. It could say "foobar" instead of "attribute", it wouldn't change the meaning of the spec. What "omitted" means only matters when it's applied to an actual attribute, at which point it's no longer ambiguous.

Consider it to be like a C++ macro. Late-bound.