- From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:23:59 -0800
- To: "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>
- CC: public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
On 12/15/2010 1:30 PM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote: > > In IE7, and IE8 and IE9 Beta in quirks mode, <br> > > is treated as a paragraph separator. However, in > > IE8 and IE9 in standards mode, it is treated as a > > line separator and does not end the bidi paragraph. > > Wow! I had not noticed this. > > I guess standards really means standards, which is good. And they can > always fall back on quirks and "strict" mode, to keep existing > documents from breaking. > > The question is whether this means that the change re <br> in HTML5 > should be rolled back. I think at the minimum it would need to be re-justified much more strongly. Just because HTML5 is a "new" version of a standard doesn't mean that it should flip-flop on something that vendors (and related standards such as Unicode) have understood as the correct "standard' behavior. When the story was, "oh, nobody implements it correctly anyway" that provided a lot more leeway to bring the standard inline with practice. That leeway is now gone. A./
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