- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:14:16 -0800
- To: Mathias Bynens <mathias@qiwi.be>
- Cc: Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Mathias Bynens <mathias@qiwi.be> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: >> I so no reason why it should be. > > Well, all existing engines (except Gecko) already support this, and > have for years. Pave The Cowpaths, etc. The assumption behind Pave The Cowpaths is to spec what *authors* are using (the path they've beaten into the grass through their own wanderings), not bugwards compat for things that UAs are consistently doing (that would be, um, "Clean the Mislaid Sidewalks" I guess). If significant numbers of authors are relying on the surrogate pair behavior, we should spec it. If UAs report that it would be very difficult to fix their bug and they're not willing to do so, we should spec it. Otherwise, we should keep the preferred behavior currently in the spec and file bugs on browsers to fix it. ~TJ
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