Re: [svgwg] Improve SMIL "Parsing timing specifiers" instructions (#722)

> Plus and minus signs may be escaped, but as the specification does not call this out as it does for dots, I don't believe this was meant to be a requirement.

My interpretation when I first implemented that was that it was meant to be a requirement. The "In addition, strip any leading backslash '\\' escape character." phrase seems to indicate it is supposed to be a generic escape character.

There are tests for this in Gecko ([here](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/ab6f4c453d15ab82147c630a8b886b40240ca72b/dom/smil/test/test_smilSyncbaseTarget.xhtml#55) is at least one) but unfortunately these were written before wpt existed.

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