- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:05:38 -0500
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> Because you don't know things like where you can break lines UAX-14 defines this, no? It may not be optimal, but it's serviceable. In fact, I'm not aware of any popular HTML/CSS UAs that do any better. > and how to render Q elements in HTML. Yes, you may have to assume something like en-us here. > You may also have problems with sort orders in selections, and with GUI > selection interfaces. I'm not quite sure what problem you're describing... could you elaborate? In any case, the point is that you can do a _better_ job of rendering if you're told what the language is, but you can do a passable job (and in fact a much better job than currently available UAs) even if you aren't. Boris -- Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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