hixie: I missed that it should also apply to attributes when adding this requirement recently. (whatwg r5861)

hixie: I missed that it should also apply to attributes when adding this
requirement recently. (whatwg r5861)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4703&r2=1.4704&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5860&to=5861

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4703
retrieving revision 1.4704
diff -u -d -r1.4703 -r1.4704
--- Overview.html 9 Feb 2011 00:02:11 -0000 1.4703
+++ Overview.html 9 Feb 2011 00:06:20 -0000 1.4704
@@ -2899,9 +2899,12 @@
     <code><a href="#not_supported_err">NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR</a></code> exception must be raised.</p>
 
     <p>Except where otherwise specified, if a method has an argument
-    of type <code>DOMString</code>, the user agent must <span title="dfn-obtain-unicode">convert the <code>DOMString</code> to a
-    sequence of Unicode characters</span> when the method is invoked,
-    to obtain the string on which the method is to operate. <a href="#refsWEBIDL">[WEBIDL]</a></p>
+    of type <code>DOMString</code>, or if an IDL attribute is assigned
+    a new value of type <code>DOMString</code>, the user agent must
+    <span title="dfn-obtain-unicode">convert the
+    <code>DOMString</code> to a sequence of Unicode characters</span>
+    to obtain the string on which the algorithms in this specification
+    are to operate. <a href="#refsWEBIDL">[WEBIDL]</a></p>
 
    </dd>

Received on Wednesday, 9 February 2011 00:07:33 UTC