[whatwg] Reconstructing formatting elements (8.2.5)

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:15:30 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> 
> The behavior HTML5 requires is thus intentional for compat with IE.
> 
> We could avoid cloning quite as many by eating whitespace after a 
> table-related tag (<tr>, <td>, etc) by resetting the table taint flag at 
> those points... would that be desireable?
> 

I would say yes, but I don't feel too strongly about it. I don't like the large number of clones that result in the current algorithm, but then again, the HTML code in question probably doesn't occur that often.

Cheers,
kats

Received on Monday, 27 April 2009 18:40:46 UTC