On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>wrote: > They already have this same side-effect with opacity and transforms. > Hence my asking for evidence that it *is* an issue, especially with opacity > which is very popular. I'm not that interested in worrying about > side-effects if no one runs into them outside test suites. > dbaron's found such evidence. However, I do worry about quirky side effects even if no-one is running into them outside test suites. Standards evolve, authoring habits change, and a quirk that hasn't caused problems in the past can become a problem in the future. Rob -- "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." [Acts 17:11]
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