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Short URL: http://html5.org/r/6874

SVN	Bug	Comment	Time (UTC)
6874		Change atob() to ignore whitespace. This is a potentially breaking change, but Opera has implemented it for a while and doesn't seem to have had any problems resulting.	2011-12-15 00:44

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--- source	(revision 6873)
+++ source	(revision 6874)
@@ -80124,6 +80124,10 @@
    problems, and I figure most sites depend on Firefox if on anything,
    so go with that. -->
 
+   <!-- Since updated to drop whitespace, based on the arguments here:
+      http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-May/031613.html
+   -->
+
    <li><p>Let <var title="">input</var> be the string being
    parsed.</p></li>
 
@@ -80131,6 +80135,9 @@
    title="">input</var>, initially pointing at the start of the
    string.</p></li>
 
+   <li><p>Remove all <span title="space character">space
+   characters</span> from <var title="">input</var>.</p></li>
+
    <li><p>If the length of <var title="">input</var> divides by 4
    leaving no remainder, then: if <var title="">input</var> ends with
    one or two U+003D EQUALS SIGN (=) characters, remove them from <var

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