[Bug 12471] Please consider changing the expected rendering of abbr[title] and acronym[title] to use border-bottom instead of text-decoration: dotted underline, which has much more limited support (being in CSS3 Text, not CSS 2.1), conflicts with existing browser def

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12471

Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |

--- Comment #4 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> 2011-06-24 18:12:15 UTC ---
I disagree.  The spec should reflect reality unless we know browsers want to
change.  If at least one major browser (>5-10% market share) changes its
behavior to match the spec and can confirm there's no compat risk, then I agree
the spec should change too, because the spec is better.  But until then, the
spec should reflect reality.  In practice this is a minor thing, so it's very
possible browsers won't bother to change for years if ever, and the spec will
have been wrong in the interim.

Hixie said if we can't agree we should reopen and let him decide:

http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20110624#l-954
http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20110624#l-995

So that's what I'm doing.  Note that he doesn't get bugmail for resolved bugs,
so if the bug is resolved he'll never see it.

-- 
Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the QA contact for the bug.

Received on Friday, 24 June 2011 18:12:22 UTC