[Bug 12555] The informative note has contents that should be clearer in the normative text. Namely, a regular expression with alternate branches (a|ab) will match the string 'ab' in a more "greedy" way if compiled as the informative note suggests. As-is, implementat from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2011-07-15 (public-html-bugzilla@w3.org from July 2011)

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--- Comment #4 from contributor@whatwg.org 2011-07-15 22:11:27 UTC ---
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6309.
Check-in comment: Try to clarify some of the conformance requirements around
pattern=''.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6308&to=6309

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