- From: Blake Kaplan <mrbkap@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:38:15 -0800
David Hyatt wrote: > BTW, we tried to add <span> as an inline that should be reopened (like > <font> and <b> etc.) and it broke some of our layout tests (snippets > of real-world Web sites). <span> clearly does not always reopen in > WinIE and Firefox, so for now we are having to leave it out. It never reopens in Firefox currently (I'm not sure of the original reasoning behind this), but I believe this is partially because a significant number of web pages treat <span> as a true block, like <div>. We've also seen sites give spans absolute positioning on pages, which means that reopening them will probably break those pages. Unfortunately, it seems that <span> is a half-block (at least in Gecko) with the worst behaviors of both worlds. -- Blake Kaplan
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