[whatwg] Make "foo at bar.com, " a valid email address list

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> >> I think it would be better to simply omit that trailing comma. Which 
> >> should be allowed. If the specification currently does not allow that 
> >> (somehow) it would be a bug and is just something that needs 
> >> clarification.
> > 
> > Indeed. Also fixed.
> 
> I don't see where/how this has been fixed. To me, it's clear that 
> "foo at bar.com, bar at bar.com" will now be represented as 
> "foo at bar.com,bar at bar.com" in the DOM but not "foo at bar.com, bar at bar.com," 
> (which will be "foo at bar.com,bar at bar.com,"). In addition, this value 
> seems to still be invalid.
> 
> Can you point out the section/line that handle this case?

It was fixed by completely decoupling the /value/ from what the user 
edits. The user now edits /values/ (plural), and the user agent then 
"exports" the user's edits to the /value/. (Apologies for the similarity 
in the names of these concepts; it's difficult to come up with unique yet 
still understandable names that aren't too verbose.)

This is defined in the part of the spec starting with "When the multiple 
attribute is specified on the element".

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