- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:35:39 +1000
- To: "Bert Bos" <bert@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
- Cc: zcorpan@gmail.com
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:51:28 +1000, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org> wrote: > The CSS WG decided _not_ to change the spec in response to Simon > Pieters's request[1] to make BODY as special in XHTML as in HTML. (The > exceptions for HTML are there for historical reasons, they affect other > elements than BODY, too and we like them to _stay_ exceptions. Our > impression is that the XHTML WG also doesn't want them to apply to > XHTML. Also consider that other XML-based formats aren't special > either, even if if they have a BODY element.) > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Mar/0035.html > > (For reference, this is issue 31 in the forthcoming "Disposition of > Comments.") > > Simon, please let us know if you can't agree with this resolution. I can't. I would like to raise a formal objection against this descision. I strongly feel that the definitions for 'overflow', 'background' and tables need to be changed to make those work identically for both XHTML and HTML. Although I can't speak for them, I'm pretty sure the new HTML WG would agree. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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