- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 23:39:34 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WHAT Working Group <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
[ resending this message, originally dated "Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014
11:42:10 -0700", since I just noticed it didn't make it through to
the list due to the list's content-type filters rejecting signed
messages ]
On Tuesday 2014-04-29 17:55 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> >
> > We talked this over in the CSSWG meeting, and came up with a proposal
> > for non-magical styling that is still very close to current behavior in
> > all browsers:
> >
> > br {
> > display-box: contents;
> > content: "\A";
> > white-space: pre;
> > }
>
> I've filed a bug to track this. It would be useful if browser vendors
> could indicate whether they think Tab's proposal is satisfactory (in
> particular, is 'display-box' something that browsers will implement?
> Apparently Gecko is doing it, anyone else?).
>
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25503
I might not want to implement <br> this way, since display-box:
contents involves a bit of complexity that I wouldn't want to impose
on such a common element. Then again, we could perhaps special-case
<br> inside the implementation of display-box: contents. But it's
not just a trivial matter of removing the existing <br>
implementation and replacing it with the above.
-David
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