- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 13:40:17 -0700
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- CC: Xaxio Brandish <xaxiobrandish@gmail.com>, W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On 02/19/2011 04:33 AM, Koji Ishii wrote: > I hope this is the last question in your review, please let me know if I miss soething. > >> Section 4 states >> Note that the document parser may have not only >> normalized segment breaks, >> >> How is the adjective "normalized" meant to be applied >> to "segment break"? > > I think it can be removed, but let me check this with my co-editor. "have normalized" is the verb in the clause, so no, "normalized" cannot be removed. :) [OT English Grammar] The (vastly) simplified present-tense form would be: The document parser normalizes segment breaks. It's conjugated into [conditional-past tense whose name I don't know]: The document parser may have normalized segment breaks. And then "not only ... but also" is inserted to add in a second predicate: The document parser may have not only normalized segment breaks, but also ... Does that help? >> Are form feeds (U+000C?) explicitly NOT considered >> to be white space, and if so, should that be stated; >> how should they be handled, if at all? This is covered in the statement # Control characters (Unicode class Cc) other than tab (U+0009), line feed (U+000A), # and carriage return (U+000D) are ignored for the purpose of rendering. > Do you have any reason or real use cases to explicitly include it as white space? > The "white space" here is not to be a general definition of white space but is a > useful, interoperable, and backward compatible way for the UAs to handle source > text. I don't think we should change this behavior unless it is absolutely > necessary, as any changes can impact UA developers and HTML authors. For background - CSS2.1 does not collapse form feeds as white space. [1] CSS3 Text must remain consistent with CSS2.1 in this respect. (If you believe they should be collapsed, please provide a test case showing that they are collapsed in at least two of the four major browser engines and we will accept this as a potential CSS2.1 erratum.) [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#white-space-model ~fantasai
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