- From: Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:51:37 -0500
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Dean Jackson" <dino@apple.com>, "www-style mailing list" <www-style@w3.org>
Le Mer 12 décembre 2012 19:11, Tab Atkins Jr. a écrit : > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote: >> On 13/12/2012, at 10:21 AM, Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org> >> wrote: >> >>> I do not understand why Webkit can not implement orphans and widows >>> according to CSS2.1 specification. >>> >>> I do not understand why you say that it would break existing content. >> >> Because these properties have implied behaviour on content, even when >> they were never specified by the author. Now, after years, our >> implementation >> turns them on and things change. I doubt any author will understand >> why. Whether or not it is a positive change is important, but not really >> our decision to make. > > Yup. The initial value was chosen on the assumption that the behavior > change wouldn't break things, because it's a nice default. > > However, if you think that it'll cause content to break, It may cause "content to break" but it's definitely a very minor thing in my opinion. > then we > should obviously just be more conservative about things and set the > initial value to 1 (no effect) instead. > > ~TJ We're talking about minimal number of lines at top and bottom of a page in page media set to 2 instead of set to 1. Is that really a serious source of concern and a sufficient justification to not support initial value according to spec? I say no. Gérard -- CSS 2.1 Test suite RC6, March 23rd 2011 http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/toc.html Contributions to CSS 2.1 test suite http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/ Web authors' contributions to CSS 2.1 test suite http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/web-authors-contributions-css21-testsuite.html
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