- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:33:18 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Cc: <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>, <Arron.Eicholz@microsoft.com>
* L. David Baron wrote: >To respond to myself here, the spec suggests *informatively* in two >places that :before and :after should default to pre-line (although >in one of them, for HTML only, which seems bizarre): >http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/sample.html >http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#propdef-white-space >but it never says so normatively. In 2003 we resolved that white-space applies normally to ::before and ::after and some months later added the white-space rules to the examples and the sample style sheet to avoid the impression that there are special white-space rules for ::before and ::after. That of course does not stop individual user agents to have special rules in their user agent style sheet. >If we actually want this behavior, it should be stated normatively >(and then the tests would be correct). If we don't, we should >probably take out the examples. Considering the confusion this has caused over the years, I do not think simply taking the examples out would help to avoid further uncertainty, we would simply trade one for the other. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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