- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:11:44 +0200 (MET)
- To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>, Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>, QingLong <qinglong@yggdrasil.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Apr 15, 1:22pm, David Perrell wrote: > I'd be happy if it could be agreed that since a 'float'ed element is > "outside the normal flow of elements" then it follows that the opening > tag of the floated element does not explicitly close a paragraph. Oh, gross. The parsing rules, and the HTML DTD, alter depending on what stylesheet happens to be applied to a document at a given time, and the structure and content are deeply and mysteriously intertwingled. If elements are outside the flow - fine, flow is a formatting concept. The stylesheet should not affect the way the document tree is constructed in the way you seem to be suggesting. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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