- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:42:32 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
- To: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- cc: <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Tantek Celik wrote: > > How about we simply define the behavior of 'normal' to mean > "vertically shrink wrap the element", which is the traditional HTML > presentation. This is a change from the spec, a change from existing RELEASED implementations that are within the spec, and a change to interpretations of the spec that have been publicly discussed for YEARS in www-style. Now is NOT an appropriate time to be suggesting such drastic changes. > Why not make the 'normal' value useful _and_ kindler/gentler to HTML > authors? The spec is already backwards compatible with all the common cases!!! The current text of the spec (taking into account my proposed errata) is loose enough to be interpreted in a largely backwards-compatible manner AS WELL as the strict, self-consistent manner described by David and implemented in Netscape 6. See also: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2001Mar/0148.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2001Mar/0177.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2001Mar/0181.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2001Mar/0183.html -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Invited Expert, CSS Working Group /. `- ' ( `--' The views expressed in this message are strictly `- , ) -> ) \ personal and not those of Netscape or Mozilla. ________ (.' \) (.' -' ______
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