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Re: The progress element: wording issues with steps

From: T.J. Crowder <tj@crowdersoftware.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:09:39 +0100
Message-ID: <c95470a0909040209la532fe4l32052802b7d6f9bc@mail.gmail.com>
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: Stephen Baker <Stephen.Baker@ermscorp.com>, public-html-comments@w3.org
<nit>
"....results of parsing the textContent was nothing..." either "result" or
"were nothing" but not "results...was nothing"
</nit>

-- T.J.


2009/9/4 Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>

> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Stephen Baker wrote:
> >
> > "If the max attribute is omitted, and the value is omitted, and the
> > results of parsing the textContent was nothing, then the progress bar is
> > an indeterminate progress bar. Abort these steps."
> >
> > Mixes tense, should be:
> >
> > "If the max attribute is omitted, and the value is omitted, and the
> > results of parsing the textContent are nothing, then the progress bar is
> > an indeterminate progress bar.  Abort these steps."
>
> This is intentional -- the parsing occurs before the steps begin, and so
> that steps is referring to the results of that earlier parsing.
>
> --
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>
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