This test works: it passes all known current implementations.
BUT, I'm struggling with the test design (and with testing page-breaking, in general). The spec quite explicitly calls out that a UA may break anywhere... How do you fail a UA for breaking before the b, or the a for that matter? It's certainly allowed. It's even a reasonable heuristic, to break near the end of the page at start of a new paragraph, even if widows don't force a new page; we've seen at least one implementation (Prince) do something similar on another test.
We could redesign the test to greatly reduce the likelihood of accidental failure, by setting the 'page-break-inside: avoid' on a big span whose static position should be up high on the page: a page break there would almost certainly indicate a defect, rather than a reasonable heuristic. But to make this work, we need to create a page-size-specific test, which we generally try to avoid.
I'm leaning toward accepting the page-size limitation in favor of reducing the likelihood of accidental failure. Thoughts?
Best wishes,
Melinda
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