Re: [css-text] Control characters

On 15/11/14 12:11, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com
> <mailto:jfkthame@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 15/11/14 00:11, Greg Whitworth wrote:
>
>             Thanks for your comments and concerns. The CSSWG has
>             reviewed this
>             issue, and, after reviewing also other implementors'
>             feedback, has
>             resolved to make this change.
>
>
>         Just so I can make a decision concerning a livesite bug that we have
>         had reported regarding showing the box for the control character,
>         does Blink/Webkit/Gecko plan to implement this?  We currently
>         haven't
>         fully implemented this but fell into it due to the font
>         selected, but
>         it does bring up the issue that a user will think that a UA is
>         broken
>         if one UA is showing boxes while others are not. Interestingly,
>         Gecko
>         removed this from their implementation due to this very problem[1].
>
>
>     We did (after considerable debate). But given the recent CSS WG
>     agreement on this, I expect us to revert that change.
>
>     Just filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/__show_bug.cgi?id=1099557
>     <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099557>.
>
>
> I think we should coordinate schedules here. I don't want to Firefox to
> be the only browser doing this; I'd like to ship this change around the
> same time another major browser does.

Agreed, that would be good.

So Greg, can you comment on schedule at all?

How about Webkit or Blink folk?

JK

Received on Saturday, 15 November 2014 13:20:32 UTC