You might have missed this. Because of this lengthy thread on throwing for atob() space characters will no longer cause the method to throw from revision>6874 onwards. This is the WHATWG Weekly, with some standards related updates just before the world slacks off to feast and watch reindeer on Google Earth. Shadow DOM Dimitri Glazkov [...]
Entries from December 2011
WHATWG Weekly: Shadow DOM and more encoding fun!
December 21st, 2011 · No Comments
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WHATWG Weekly: Stream API and better autocomplete
December 15th, 2011 · No Comments
James Hawkins proposed the intent element in a way that brings back memories of HTML4. Happy to be reminded we are over SGML now. This is the WHATWG Weekly. Better autocomplete Overnight a complete proposal for better autocomplete appeared on the WHATWG Wiki, apparently already experimentally implemented in Chrome (prefixed). It proposes a new autocompletetype [...]
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WHATWG Weekly: Encoding woes and WebVTT
December 5th, 2011 · No Comments
If you want to contribute to the WHATWG Blog or Wiki, join IRC (#whatwg on Freenode). We had to shut down user registration unfortunately due to excessive spam. Welcome to another WHATWG Weekly. If it were themed, this would be about Sinterklaas. Encoding problem In response to Faruk Ateş’ plea for defaulting to UTF-8, David [...]
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