- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:48:05 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- cc: public-css-testsuite@w3.org
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, L. David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 2011-04-20 04:28 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, L. David Baron wrote: > > > > > > > > I didn't write 004a so I'm not sure what it's testing or how to fix > > > > it. > > > > > > bidi-004a is intended to be a simplified version of bidi-004 that > > > doesn't test interaction with whitespace collapsing, since we had (I > > > think) no correct implementations of the interaction of bidi with > > > whitespace collapsing, and had to loosen the spec to enter PR. For > > > (some) more details, see: > > > http://www.w3.org/mid/4D41E88E.3040808@inkedblade.net > > > > That seems a bit lame. What's the point of entering PR if we don't have > > interop? > > Is there a reasonable point at which you'd expect to stop finding lack > of interop? No. Software, specifications, and test suites are never finished, only abandoned. Why abandon the spec? It's still in use. It doesn't seem helpful to declare failure and stop the convergence here. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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