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Bug 28889 - Clarify that step 2 and the final paragraph of step 3 have the same effect
Summary: Clarify that step 2 and the final paragraph of step 3 have the same effect
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 editorial
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#followi...
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Reported: 2015-07-03 12:37 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2016-03-25 13:03 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2015-07-03 12:37:21 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#following-hyperlinks
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#following-hyperlinks
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Comment:
Clarify that step 2 and the final paragraph of step 3 have the same effect

Posted from: 87.64.197.8 by ms2ger@gmail.com
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Comment 1 Ms2ger 2015-07-03 12:38:43 UTC 
> 2. Let source be the browsing context that contains the Document object
>    with which subject in question is associated.
> 3. ...
>    Otherwise, let target be the browsing context that subject itself is in.

The difference in wording makes me uncertain that they do mean the same browsing context.
Comment 2 Anne 2016-03-25 13:03:46 UTC 
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/942