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Bug 24459 - “5. Place into the input stream for the HTML parser just created the /input/.” reads like gibberish to me. Did you mean “Place the /input/ just created into the input stream for the HTML parser.”?
Summary: “5. Place into the input stream for the HTML parser just created the /input/....
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: 2014-01-31 22:06 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-02-03 19:55 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-01-31 22:06:18 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-end.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#parsing-html-fragments
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#parsing-html-fragments
Referrer: http://domparsing.spec.whatwg.org/

Comment:
“5. Place into the input stream for the HTML parser just created the
/input/.” reads like gibberish to me. Did you mean “Place the /input/ just
created into the input stream for the HTML parser.”?

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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2014-02-02 16:50:24 UTC 
The OP is right at least about the current word order here being confusing, even though the suggested replacement is wrong. But "Place the /input/ into the input stream for the HTML parser just created" would be right, and less prone to misreading than the current word order of that sentence in the spec is.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-02-03 19:54:58 UTC 
Yeah, the current word order, while technically correct, is wildly confusing. Fixed.
Comment 3 contributor 2014-02-03 19:55:08 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8451.
Check-in comment: Change this text to be more like how normal people think, rather than using the wacked way I think.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8450&to=8451