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Bug 7489 - I wanted to know what a fallback entry is so I clicked on the "fallback entries" link. This took me to a section that describes fallback entries as "Resources that were listed in the cache's manifest as fallback entries". But that's a recursive definition
Summary: I wanted to know what a fallback entry is so I clicked on the "fallback entri...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/curr...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: NoReply
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Reported: 2009-09-03 15:06 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:54 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-09-03 15:06:21 UTC 
Section: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#writing-cache-manifests

Comment:
I wanted to know what a fallback entry is so I clicked on the "fallback entries" link. This took me to a section that describes fallback entries as "Resources that were listed in the cache's manifest as fallback entries". But that's a recursive definition

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-22 01:07:47 UTC 
I've tried to at least make it not recursive.
Comment 2 contributor 2009-09-22 01:08:47 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r3952.
Check-in comment: Try to clarify fallback entries. It's not entirely clear that I did an acceptable job here, but it's a start.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3951&to=3952
Comment 3 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 14:50:36 UTC 
This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
  http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.