RE: Whitespace

FWIW Gecko accepts U+000B as whitespace (and likely has since the
beginning).

I don't see any reason to exclude it.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Alex Mogilevsky
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:18 PM
To: Ian Hickson; www-style@w3.org
Cc: Justin Rogers
Subject: RE: Whitespace


Note that IE8 layout is being built exactly to standard so it does not
(currently) consider U+000B whitespace.

-----Original Message-----
From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Ian Hickson
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:55 AM
To: www-style@w3.org
Subject: Whitespace



For consistency in the Web platform I would like us to make the whitespace
definitions for HTML5 and CSS match. Right now, HTML5 defines the
following characters to be syntactic whitespace:

   U+0020 SPACE, U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (tab), U+000A LINE FEED (LF),
   U+000B LINE TABULATION, U+000C FORM FEED (FF), and U+000D CARRIAGE
   RETURN (CR)
   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#space

CSS2.1 defines the following characters to be syntactic whitespace:

   "space" (U+0020), "tab" (U+0009), "line feed" (U+000A), "carriage
   return" (U+000D), and "form feed" (U+000C)

The only difference appears to be the inclusion of U+000B in the
definition for HTML5.

HTML5's definition has a couple of minor advantages: it seems to be
closers to what IE7 does (at least for HTML), and it allows spaces to be
defined as the range of characters from U+0009 to U+000D plus U+0020,
rather than having it be five separate codepoints, which may allow for
some subtle optimisations.

Would adding U+000B to the CSS white space definition be acceptable to the
CSSWG, or are there good reasons to exclude U+000B that should cause me to
remove it from the HTML5 definition?

Cheers,
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