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- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:28:31 +0000
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I18N-ISSUE-24: Bug 12935 - <rt> should not auto-close ancestors [HTML5-mail] http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/24 Raised by: Richard Ishida On product: HTML5-mail Bugzilla: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12935 Boris Zbarsky 2011-06-10 17:23:50 UTC We're implementing ruby support in Gecko, and discovered that the HTML5 parsing algorithm requires that <rt> close <rtc>. This behavior does not match the pre-HTML5-parser Gecko behavior, the pre-HTML5-parser WebKit behavior, Presto, or IE9+. It does match IE8-. Given that IE has already changed its behavior here once, I see no reason to require them to change it again to what is arguably a less-useful behavior. So I think what we should do is to remove the <rt> magic from the spec entirely, simplifying the spec and making it compatible with what IE9, Gecko 1.9.2, Presto, and pre-HTML-parser WebKit. There will still be the issue that it's not safe for authors to actually use <rtc> until IE8- marketshare becomes negligible, but I would expect the timeframe for this to be on par with the timeframe for HTML5 getting anywhere close to REC if not shorter. In the meantime, there is clearly not a serious web compat issue with the proposed change, since IE9, Gecko 1.9.2, Presto, and pretty recent WebKit all have/had that behavior. So there should be nothing stopping Gecko and WebKit from changing away from their current behavior.
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