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Bug 28338 - <meta refresh> Remove "Otherwise, jump to the last step." from step 10 to match IE11/Gecko.
Summary: <meta refresh> Remove "Otherwise, jump to the last step." from step 10 to mat...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
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: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#attr-me...
Whiteboard: [good first bug]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-03-26 08:59 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2015-11-18 21:39 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2015-03-26 08:59:50 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#attr-meta-http-equiv-refresh
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#attr-meta-http-equiv-refresh
Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

Comment:
<meta refresh> Remove "Otherwise, jump to the last step." from step 10 to
match IE11/Gecko.
http://www.otsukare.info/2015/03/26/refresh-http-header suggests web compat
needs it (webkit and blink have bugs filed).

Posted from: 90.230.218.37 by simonp@opera.com
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.50 Safari/537.36 OPR/29.0.1795.26 (Edition beta)
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2015-10-11 21:40:11 UTC 
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/245
Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2015-10-11 21:58:25 UTC 
Hmm, it seems the fix here does not actually match Gecko. It does require whitespace.

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3671 (doesn't redirect)
Comment 3 Simon Pieters 2015-11-18 21:39:24 UTC 
Fixed by https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/246