Re: Bug in t1202-counters-17-d

Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
>> In fact, as I recall the pre-line thing for :before/:after was a bug some
>> UAs had, based on the spec's language being vague, no?
>>
> It is in section 16.6:
> 
> The following examples show what whitespace behavior is expected from the PRE 
> and P elements, the "nowrap" attribute in HTML, and in generated content. 
...
> :before,:after { white-space: pre-line }

Hmm...  That's informative text, not normative.  But yes, I take the 
point that as the spec is currently written it strongly hints that the 
t1202-counters-17-d test is at least making assumptions it should not be 
making, in that UAs are free to have this rule in the UA stylesheet.

I wonder how all this matches up with existing implementations...  Gecko 
does not have "white-space: pre-line" defined for :before/:after. 
Neither does Opera 9 (though Opera makes \A produce a line-break even if 
"white-space: normal" is set, which looks like a bug to me).  IE doesn't 
support any of this stuff, and khtml seems to have "white-space: 
pre-line" set (in version 3.5.5, at least).

-Boris