Re: Signature and LF

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:33:48 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Simon Pieters wrote:
>>
>> Before I brought up that there was a mismatch between the text/vtt
>> registration's "WebVTT files all begin with one of the following byte
>> sequences:" and the WebVTT parser's handling of the signature. Hixie
>> made a change to the parser to address it, but they still don't match.
>>
>> Consider a file that contains "WEBVTT foo" and no LFs. It matches the
>> text/vtt's registration, but the parser rejects it in step 9, because
>> there's no LF.
>>
>> I think the parser step 5 should be changed to collect characters that
>> are not LF, space or tab, and then check that the collected characters
>> are "WEBVTT", and then if the next character is space or tab, skip
>> characters that are not LF, and remove step 9.
>
> Doesn't really matter, surely. I mean, the file is empty.

I think it matters enough to file the bug and change our tests and impl  
(which we have already done).

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software