Re: [w3c/manifest] Why is purpose a "unordered set of unique space-separated tokens"? (#903) from toastal on 2021-03-17 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from March 2021)

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I agree with the author's assumption. Just because things have been working as a space-separated list does not imply it's a good design. The design matching HTML doesn't make sense; this is JSON. Arrays make more sense and require less processing (e.g. no split on space, validate enums, or other magic). It's not easy to model this with types as is and values are not explicit. Having a just a string makes this quite error-prone and complex. I

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