hixie: Mention Format=Flowed explicitly. (whatwg r5598)

hixie: Mention Format=Flowed explicitly. (whatwg r5598)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4475&r2=1.4476&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5597&to=5598

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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retrieving revision 1.4476
diff -u -d -r1.4475 -r1.4476
--- Overview.html 11 Oct 2010 22:02:08 -0000 1.4475
+++ Overview.html 11 Oct 2010 22:12:40 -0000 1.4476
@@ -44358,8 +44358,9 @@
   of the input stream.</p>
 
   <p>The rules for how to convert the bytes of the plain text document
-  into actual characters are defined in RFC 2046, RFC 2646, and
-  subsequent versions thereof. <a href="#refsRFC2046">[RFC2046]</a> <a href="#refsRFC2646">[RFC2646]</a></p>
+  into actual characters, and the rules for actually rendering the
+  text to the user, are defined in RFC 2046, RFC 2646, and subsequent
+  versions thereof. <a href="#refsRFC2046">[RFC2046]</a> <a href="#refsRFC2646">[RFC2646]</a></p>
 
   <p>The <a href="#document-s-character-encoding">document's character encoding</a> must be set to the
   character encoding used to decode the document.</p>
@@ -44388,6 +44389,11 @@
   binding, providing script, giving the document a <code><a href="#the-title-element-0">title</a></code>,
   etc.</p>
 
+  <p class="note">In particular, if the user agent supports the <code title="">Format=Flowed</code> feature of RFC 2646 then the user
+  agent would need to apply extra styling to cause the text to wrap
+  correctly and to handle the quoting feature. This could be performed
+  using, e.g., an XBL binding or a CSS extension.</p>
+
   <p>The <a href="#task-source">task source</a> for the two tasks mentioned in this
   section must be the <a href="#networking-task-source">networking task source</a>.</p>

Received on Monday, 11 October 2010 22:13:31 UTC