[Bug 13120] Delagate <wbr> support to quirks-mode - make it have zero effect in no-quirks and almost-standards

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13120

Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Depends on|                            |10342, 9350, 9711, 13098
         Resolution|DUPLICATE                   |
            Summary|Obsolete <wbr>              |Delagate <wbr> support to
                   |                            |quirks-mode - make it have
                   |                            |zero effect in no-quirks
                   |                            |and almost-standards

--- Comment #7 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> 2011-07-04 05:56:55 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Use-cases were presented by Maciej in bug 9350, 

Bug 9350 has been reopened.

> where he pointed out that its
> behavior does not match zwsp or any construct specifiable using CSS. 
> Specifically, it overrides white-space:
> 
> """
> The wbr element is expected to override the 'white-space' property and always
> provide a line-breaking opportunity.
> """

These argumetns have been questioned in 8th comment of Bug 9350:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9350#c8

> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html#phrasing-content-1
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10342 ***

Obsoletation isn't enough. Parser support for <wbr> should be delegated to
quirks-mode. Thus, this bug has been renamed to: "Delagate <wbr> support to
quirks-mode - make it have zero effect in no-quirks and almost-standards".

JUSTIFICATION for delagating it to quirks-mode: 

* <wbr> is conceptually very unclear and misunderstood. There is no unique
usecase.
* no single browser implements it in sane way - they all differ
   See: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9711#c2
* IE has already delagated support to Quirks-Mode only.
* Making <wbr> have zero effect in standards mode is pretty risk free: Due to
the fact that no browser really implements <wbr> in full,  the text levels
effects (that is: the effects on searching, selection, doubleclicking,
clipboard copying) are in some cases zero and in other cases close to zero. 

For more arguments, see my comments in the bugs that I have made this bug
dependent on.

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Received on Monday, 4 July 2011 05:56:57 UTC