[whatwg]  expanding to LF from Ian Hickson on 2010-03-18 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2010)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:24:10 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1003180004130.13402@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> HTML5 makes &#13; expand to LF.
> 
> What problem does this solve?
> 
> None of Gecko, Presto, Trident or WebKit expand &#13; to LF. (They all 
> expand it to CR.)
> 
> This makes the HTML5 parser fail 
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/style/test/test_parse_rule.html

This was apparently originally requested by Anne:

   http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-June/011689.html

I'm fine with changing it back, assumine Anne's ok with it too. Anne?

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