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- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:27:14 +0000
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Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> 2011-08-09 07:27:13 UTC ---
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A personal comment on http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/
In several places, HTML4 (or rather SGML) automatically ignores white
space in the source, so that you can lay out the source more freely.
E.g., this document has not a single white space character:
<!doctype html public '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>one</td>
<td>two</td>
</table>
HTML5, on the other hand, sees lots of spaces and line feeds in this
document. People will want to lay out the document like this anyway, and
the result is that the white space has to be removed at some other stage
in the processing.
In anticipation of HTML5, CSS already added some rules to ignore spaces
that are likely to be not significant, but as CSS has no access to the
mark-up, those rules are necessarily wrong in some cases. (E.g., CSS
will now ignore certain spaces even if they had been marked-up as
character entities: clearly not the author's intention.)
If the document is processed by some other system than CSS, that system,
too, will need to deal with white space that may not have been
significant.
It would be better if HTML5 remained backwards compatible with HTML4 in
this case, ignoring non-significant white space in all places where
HTML4 ignores it, too.
]]
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