- From: Arron Eicholz <Arron.Eicholz@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:14:19 +0000
- To: Patrick Garies <w3c.www-style@patrick.garies.name>
- CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Sunday, August 22, 2010 2:28 PM Patrick Garies wrote: > Apparently, I didn't send this to the list, so here it is again (slightly different > since it didn't save to my "Sent" folder and I had to rewrite it as a result): > > On 2010-08-15 6:58 AM, Peter Moulder wrote: > > For example, my understanding of the diagram just before section > > 17.4.1 conflicts with the diagram's caption, but in section 8.3.1 > > (Collapsing Margins) I don't understand the intended meaning of some > > of the basic relationships that everything is defined in terms of, so > > it's hard for me to get as far as trying to apply that section's rules > > to the situation to know the meaning of the caption and whether > > there's a conflict or not. > > This is an error in the spec; the caption beneath the diagram is incorrect. > > During IE8 development, someone at Microsoft suggested removing the > margin collapsing behavior between table and caption boxes. Everyone > agreed to that and, thus, caption box margins no longer collapse with > anything. They submitted a new diagram describing the new behavior, but > whoever updated the spec apparently forgot to change the caption as well. > The old diagram (that matches the current caption) can be found at > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-CSS21-20070719/tables.html#model>. > > (I noticed this issue maybe half a year ago, but I never got around to > reporting it.) > Thank you for your feedback. The CSSWG has addressed your concerns in the upcoming publication of the CSS 2.1 specification[1]. The CSSWG resolved to update the diagram. We hope this closes your issue. Please respond before 18 March, 2011 if you do not accept the current resolution. [1] http://w3.org/TR/CSS
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