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Bug 17941 - "with any leading or trailing sequences of space characters removed" - why is this needed? In dotnetdotcom's web200904 I don't see any occurrences of leading or trailing spaces in <script type>. Can the trimming be dropped?
Summary: "with any leading or trailing sequences of space characters removed" - why is...
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: 2012-07-18 07:20 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-08-24 19:55 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 07:20:49 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 16888 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-04-30 08:51:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-04-30 08:51:25 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/scripting-1.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#script-processing-prepare
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#script-processing-prepare

Comment:
"with any leading or trailing sequences of space characters removed" - why is
this needed? In dotnetdotcom's web200904 I don't see any occurrences of
leading or trailing spaces in <script type>. Can the trimming be dropped?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-08-24 19:55:14 UTC 
Because it seems to be what implementations do.