- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:04:24 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Michel Fortin wrote: > > > > I don't disagree. Should we just drop these spaces on the floor? It > > doesn't seem like the best thing but I guess I'm not opposed. What do > > other people think? > > I'd agree they're mostly useless in a browser context, but when reading > HTML with the intent of reserializing it later, preserving the > whitespace around the document type declaration, the comments and the > root element can be beneficial for the readability of the final output. > I'd keep them there I agree... > just like XML does. Sadly it doesn't... On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Michel Fortin wrote: > > In that case, I guess it'd make sense to do the same for HTML. Yeah... On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > Yes, it makes sense to do the same. Otherwise there'd be particularly > esoteric non-roundtrippable case when converting from HTML5 to XHTML5 > and back to HTML5. Done. But now HTML5 can't round-trip the whitespace itself... Oh well. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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