- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:47:05 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jeff Schiller wrote: > > > > > > <aside>You don't hear "keen" alot these days, do you?</aside> > > > > > > All browsers at the moment will render the contents of the <aside> > > > element as default styling of a paragraph, I guess. > > > > Actually IE won't even do that, sadly (IE treats all unknown element > > start and end tags as empty elements). In Mozilla, the above works for > > elements that only contain inline content (so it'd work for the > > <aside> but not the <section>). In Safari and Opera it works fine. > > Actually, things seemed to work for me in both IE6 and Mozilla. The > only thing that did not work was when I added the aside's style - IE > refused to style it properly (but still displayed its contents). Right, that's what I was referring to. > > It's actually likely that we won't introduce default styling for many > > of these elements, for exactly this reason. > > Ian, who is the "we" in this sentence. Surely the default styling would > be up to the browser vendors and not the specification writers... By request from browser vendors, HTML5 will include a set of recommendations for default styling. It'll be a MAY at most. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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