- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:22:29 -0500
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 1/6/10 9:27 AM, Brad Kemper wrote:
> 4. pre-compute just the white-space for the element, and discard or collapse white-space into individual spaces in each of the slots, according to that resolution
The point is that this step depends not only on the white-space value of
the element, but also on the exact boxes generated for children of the
element, in general.
Unless you actually mean to run some algorithm quite different from the
CSS whitespace collapsing algorithm but that happens to sort of look
like it to a first approximation?
For example:
<p>
This is <span></span> text
</p>
I assume that you would want the first textnode to claim to have a
trailing space and the second textnode to claim to have a leading space
even though after CSS whitespace collapsing there is in fact only one
space in the example above between "is" and "text"?
-Boris
Received on Wednesday, 6 January 2010 15:23:03 UTC