On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:04 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > 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). I don't agree with that model as well, but I don't think HTML5 model is perfect either. Back to spanning, IMHO, it introduces much complexity with nearly no benefits, hence I suggest that we should get rid of it. - Xidorn
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