On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: >> Another nit: the definition of "ASCII whitespace" is different from the >> definition of whitespace used by String.prototype.trim [1]. That means that >> an implementation of this spec. that was implemented using JS couldn't use >> S.p.trim to process labels as described in the spec. >> >> [1]: >> http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-string.prototype.trim >> <http://people.mozilla.org/%7Ejorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-string.prototype.trim> > > This seems more than a nit!
You cannot use that method for CSS, HTML, HTTP, etc. either. For this API we could have a different definition of whitespace I suppose, but e.g. for <meta charset=...> I doubt we could do that without risking breakage (or at the HTML parser level, say). -- http://annevankesteren.nl/ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
