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Bug 24204 - The pragma is "unlike" the HTTP header? Shouldn’t this be the opposite?
Summary: The pragma is "unlike" the HTTP header? Shouldn’t this be the opposite?
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
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: 2014-01-04 16:29 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-03-07 23:59 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-01-04 16:29:43 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#table-http-equiv
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#table-http-equiv
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Comment:
The pragma is "unlike" the HTTP header? Shouldn’t this be the opposite?

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Comment 1 Simon Sapin 2014-01-04 16:31:36 UTC 
I’m confused by "almost entirely unlike".
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-01-04 21:57:36 UTC 
I recommend reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

"entirely unlike" means "nothing like".
"not entirely unlike" means "not nothing like".
"almost entirely unlike" means "almost nothing like".

Seems pretty unambiguous to me. What's the problem?
Comment 3 Simon Sapin 2014-01-04 22:28:31 UTC 
I expected the meaning to be the opposite because they do not seem that different as far as I can tell, but ok.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-03-07 23:59:21 UTC 
It parses differently, it has different semantics, it does something different... it's only superficially the same.

And you really should read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. :-)