- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:00:34 +0200
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:41:59 +0200, ATSUSHI TAKAYAMA <taka.atsushi at googlemail.com> wrote: > It's a minor error in the spec in the Server-Sent Events spec. > http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/#event-stream-interpretation > > When processing a line with only "data:", the data buffer will be the > empty string and the LF character added at the "process the field" > stage. When dispatching the event, the first step "If the data buffer > is an empty string, set the data buffer and the event name buffer to > the empty string and abort these steps." does not apply here (since we > have the LF character, which will be removed in the step 2). So it > does fire a MessageEvent with an empty string as the data property. > > I think the steps 1 and 2 of the dispatching should be the other way > round. Why would we not want to dispatch an event where data is the empty string in this case? I do not think this is an error. (Although admittedly I once thought it was.) -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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