- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:36:53 -0500
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org, whitelynx@operamail.com
Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#whitespace defines whitespace.
That doesn't answer the question that was asked, which was what you DO with the
whitespace.
The question that was asked is answered, however, by
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#white-space-model second paragraph, which says:
"For each inline element (including anonymous inlines elements),
the following steps are performed, treating bidi formatting
characters as if they were not there:"
That last clause is the answer. Note that this whole part of the algorithm
takes place before BiDi reordering. Therefore in the original example:
A ‮ C B‬D
rule 4 item 2 means that the space before 'C' is removed and hence after BiDi
reordering you get:
A B CD
as in Gecko.
-Boris
Received on Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:38:50 UTC