- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:38:18 -0500
- To: public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
For those of you that missed the call yesterday and haven't had a chance to read the minutes yet, I mentioned that Firefox removes div/span elements that don't have any content... stuff like this: <div about="#foo"><span property="bar" content="baz"></span></div> Those two nodes will be deleted from the DOM when the page is displayed and any JavaScript-based RDFa processor will never be able to produce that triple in all past and current versions of Firefox. I was suggesting that the browser may see this as "whitespace" and thus it removes what it deems to be superfluous whitespace. This had to do with feedback from Henri Sivonen on RDFa Core that we were reviewing yesterday, specifically: """ Henri Sivonen: Under 4.1 the statement about whitespace seems to say that authors should assume non-conforming processors. Toby Inkster: Would anyone object to removing the second and third sentances from the last paragraph of section 4.1? [EDIT] """ It was just one demonstration where the RDFa Processor doesn't have control over the previous stage in the processing pipeline that may or may not remove "whitespace". Shane mentioned that this has nothing to do with "whitespace" and instead we found this reference, where whitespace may be removed when a document is being canonicalized (which may happen before the RDFa processor can run on the document): http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#d0e1654 On 02/02/11 01:37, Toby Inkster wrote: > Manu was right! Why do people always sound so surprised when they find out that something I'm telling them is actually true!? :P > http://buzzword.org.uk/2011/test-empty-span.html > > Try in Firefox versus Opera. (I tested 3.6.2 and 11.0 respectively.) Just tested this in Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 - that browser removes "empty" div/spans as well, so it looks like Mozilla may not fix this bug (if they even view it as a bug). Henri, is this being tracked as a bug in Firefox? Is it not a bug? -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: The Rising Swell of Web Application Data http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/10/30/json-ld/
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