- From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:21:43 -0800
- To: Nick Fitzsimons <nick@nickfitz.co.uk>, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- CC: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
And please don't be so blithe about Microsoft. We drop whitespace around the head, and I believe we still have some issue in table cells; in general, the Trident engine was designed to round-trip content, including whitespace. We could not, as noted, support CSS' white-space:pre if we didn't. -----Original Message----- From: public-html-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Nick Fitzsimons Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:38 AM To: Garrett Smith Cc: David Hyatt; Simon Pieters; public-html Subject: Re: Whitespace before <head> On 14 Nov 2007, at 22:00, Garrett Smith wrote: > > White-space should not be ignored. > <snip> > If whitespace skipped in parsing, then it's not part of the document; > css white-space can't work if the expected white-space is dropped. > <snip> > This may seem blatantly obvious to some, but not to microsoft and the > DOM Scripter Task Force. As a member of the DSTF, I'd just like to say that I agree with you. Regards, Nick Fitzsimons. -- http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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