- From: Gérard Talbot <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:07:28 -0400
- To: "Arron Eicholz" <arron.eicholz@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Public CSS test suite mailing list" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
Hello, [RC6] http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/display-applies-to-001.htm [nightly-unstable] http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/html4/display-applies-to-001.htm [RC6] http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/display-applies-to-002.htm [nightly-unstable] http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/html4/display-applies-to-002.htm In my opinion, as coded, those 2 tests have no relevance, no usefulness and no value. They will be passed by non-CSS-capable browsers, by text browsers, by buggy browsers. They will be passed if/when CSS support is disabled. I do not know of a single browser which does not set an "a" element as inline in its own user agent stylesheet. Unknown elements are by default styled as inline anyway. Realistically speaking, those 2 tests can not fail. I have proposed a replacement back in september and october 2010: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-css-testsuite/2010Sep/0161.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-css-testsuite/2010Oct/0020.html http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/display-applies-to-002.htm Furthermore, lots of web authors out there have been trying to create columnar layouts for their sites in which an intra-site navigation list or intra-site-section navigation list would be rendered by styling <li> elements (and also 'a' elements) with 'display: block' (vertical navigation menu), sometimes with 'display: table-cell', or with 'display: inline' (horizontal navigation) and zero or more levels of nestedness. Several web authoring tutorials are about achieving just that. Gérard -- Contributions to the CSS 2.1 test suite: http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/ CSS 2.1 Test suite RC6, March 23rd 2011: http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/toc.html CSS 2.1 test suite harness: http://test.csswg.org/harness/ Contributing to to CSS 2.1 test suite: http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/web-authors-contributions-css21-testsuite.html
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