[Bug 10813] i18n comment 8 : line breaks in dialog text

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10813

Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] <ehsan@mozilla.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] <ehsan@mozilla.com> 2010-10-06 02:10:12 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Currently HTML doesn't specify anything about how the text shown in dialogs
> (such as via alert()). It would be odd to have only this one requirement.

That's true, but why is it sufficient reason to exclude this from the HTML5
specification?

> If HTML does specify anything about how the text in a dialog is rendered, it
> would probably be best to defer to CSS.

I find this argument weak, as there is currently no way for CSS to affect how
context in such dialogs is rendered.

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Received on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:10:14 UTC