[Bug 11011] New: 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

           Summary: 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]
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the
                    -pattern-attribute
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Section:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-pattern-attribute

Comment:
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]

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Received on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 11:58:29 UTC