- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:06:54 -0600
- To: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- CC: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Chris Wilson wrote: > And please don't be so blithe about Microsoft. We drop whitespace around the > head, and I believe we still have some issue in table cells; in general, the > Trident engine was designed to round-trip content, including whitespace. We > could not, as noted, support CSS' white-space:pre if we didn't. Chris, last I checked styling a node with "white-space: pre" will actually change the DOM in Trident (Text nodes that didn't use to be there will appear). So while I accept that you're keeping the whitespace around _somewhere_ internally, in practice as far as web authors are concerned you drop all sorts of whitespace from the DOM... unless the style happens to be "white-space: pre". -Boris
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