In this case, the browser shouldn't strip and normalizes the newlines from the value attribute before passing to the plugin. (FF and IE handle this nicely. They may do this only for the tcl plugin though.).
Per the parsing algorithm they should never be normalized in attributes. I'm not sure why you're suggesting they should.
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