- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:02:25 -0800
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Friday 2008-03-07 08:33 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > >If we actually want this behavior, it should be stated normatively > >(and then the tests would be correct). If we don't, we should > >probably take out the examples. > > Considering the confusion this has caused over the years, I do not think > simply taking the examples out would help to avoid further uncertainty, > we would simply trade one for the other. I don't see why you think that. As I described in http://www.w3.org/mid/20080306062701.GA25387@ridley.dbaron.org there only seems to be one implementation that treats \a as causing line-breaks with default values for 'white-space', and that's Opera. The uncertainty is coming from the examples in the spec that disagree with its normative text. If we remove those, it'll be largely gone. And given that a majority of shipping implementations of generated content agree with the normative text in the spec, I think we should have a pretty strong bias towards keeping the normative spec as-is. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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