Re: [CSS21] Make XHTML <body> magic just like HTML <body>

From: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:15:41 +0200 To: "Bert Bos" <bert@w3.org> Cc: www-style@w3.org Message-ID: <op.treqkfrp7a8kvn@hp-a0a83fcd39d2> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:28:55 GMT

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:34:32 +0200, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org> wrote:

> The WG still thinks the exception for HTML should not be carried over to
> other formats, but we've added some text to the status section of the
> document, under the heading "at risk":
>
>     * BODY element in XHTML
>
>     The effect of 'overflow' and 'background' is different on BODY
>     elements in HTML than on other elements. It may be that the
>     exceptional handling of BODY in HTML is extended to BODY in XHTML1.
>
> This means that we reserve the possibility of making BODY in XHTML1 an
> exception, just like BODY in HTML, if we consider that the state of
> implementations makes it necessary. We'll make that decision no sooner
> than six months after publication of the document as a Candidate
> Recommendation.
>
> Is that a reasonable compromise?

Yes. Thanks.

Regards,
-- 
Simon Pieters