Re: bidi-004 and bidi-004a are broken

On Wednesday 2011-04-20 00:33 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> 
> In the HTML standard, <br> is now defined to be a bidi paragraph break:
> 
>    http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-br-element
>    http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10828
> 
> This means tests bidi-004 and bidi-004a of the CSS 2.1 test suite,
> which use a <br> to break a line in a bidi context, are broken.

Yeah, I noticed (http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/css/20110325#l-6)
when smontagu landed a patch in Gecko a few weeks ago (though I
think the patch ended up backed out, for now), but forgot to report
it.  Thanks for bringing this up and fixing it.

> I didn't write 004a so I'm not sure what it's testing or how to fix it.

bidi-004a is intended to be a simplified version of bidi-004 that
doesn't test interaction with whitespace collapsing, since we had (I
think) no correct implementations of the interaction of bidi with
whitespace collapsing, and had to loosen the spec to enter PR.  For
(some) more details, see:
  http://www.w3.org/mid/4D41E88E.3040808@inkedblade.net

-David

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Received on Wednesday, 20 April 2011 04:18:42 UTC