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"A user agent" vs "the user agent" #399

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mustaqahmed opened this issue Jul 30, 2021 · 0 comments · Fixed by #402
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"A user agent" vs "the user agent" #399

mustaqahmed opened this issue Jul 30, 2021 · 0 comments · Fixed by #402
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The spec inconsistently uses "a user agent" vs "the user agent". I spotted quite a few places like this:

A user agent MUST fire a pointer event named ...

where the spec defines a normative behavior for the specific user agent for the whole context.

One precise problem: we can only talk about a "shared" pointerId in a pointerdown-pointermove-pointerup event sequence when all these events are in a single user agent implied by the context. So I think we should say "The user agent MUST fire..." in (almost?) all the cases.
patrickhlauke added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 3, 2021
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Change most instance of "a user agent" to "the user agent"
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To avoid confusion, any time a normative/clear statement is made, change to "the" (to not give the impression that a UA can somehow delegate things to another UA).

Closes #399
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Change instance of "a user agent" to "the user agent"
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To avoid confusion, any time a normative/clear statement is made, change to "the" (to not give the impression that a UA can somehow delegate things to another UA).

Closes #399
patrickhlauke added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 3, 2021
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Change instances of "a user agent" to "the user agent"
8ff4c7c 
To avoid confusion, any time a normative/clear statement is made, change to "the" (to not give the impression that a UA can somehow delegate things to another UA).

Closes #399
patrickhlauke added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 3, 2021
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Change instances of "a user agent" to "the user agent" (#402)
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* Change instances of "a user agent" to "the user agent"

To avoid confusion, any time a normative/clear statement is made, change to "the" (to not give the impression that a UA can somehow delegate things to another UA).

Closes #399

* Case sensitive find/replace - also catch uppercase "A user agent..."
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Change instances of "a user agent" to "the user agent" w3c/pointerevents
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