Re: [css-ruby] spanning of ruby annotations across excess bases

On 11/11/2014 05:52 PM, Xidorn Quan wrote:
>
> Yes, we have that in W3C HTML5, but we don't have it in WHATWG HTML5.
> I think the behavior defined in W3C HTML5 is just a simplified version
> of that in Ruby Anotation spec for XHTML http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/ .
> Given the use cases proposed in XHTML spec, I think nested ruby is even
> better in semantics for many of them.

No, Xidorn, it is not. WHATWG Ruby and HTML5 Ruby Ruby are significantly
different in how they handle <ruby><rb/><rt/><rt/></ruby>, and the CSS
spec is intentionally designed to handle the HTML5 Ruby model (because
I don't agree with the WHATWG model).

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 12 November 2014 01:05:14 UTC