[Bug 11011] Since Javascript does not support mode specifiers inside the regular expression, there is no simple way of matching a single word case-insensitively besides turning into [Ww][Oo][Rr][Dd]

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11011

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #9 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-10-14 10:00:10 UTC ---
Browsers aren't going to gate their implementation of next-gen JS features
until the next JS spec is done, any more than they are going to gate their
implementation of HTML features until HTML is done. :-)

So I think the solution here is for us to at least try to see if browser
vendors can implement this in their RegExp implementations before we add new
attributes here. From a holistic point of view, it seems like the objectively
better long-term solution.


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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: see above

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Received on Thursday, 14 October 2010 10:00:12 UTC