- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:25:29 -0500
- To: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style@w3.org, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
On 02/11/2015 07:07 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > On 11/2/15 01:29, fantasai wrote: >> >> Spec's wording is precise. Whether it's what we want might be a >> different question. > > The behavior required by the spec appears quite counter-intuitive to me. It's counter-intuitive to everyone, I think. It's just we seem to have interop on it, which means we can't change it. > A brief test indicates that gecko matches the current spec (modulo a bug with dynamic changes that David is just fixing), > while webkit uses a more intuitive (IMO) [mis]interpretation. Given that browsers currently disagree, it seems there's an > opportunity to change this without breaking the web. > > So please, let's change the spec (and gecko) here to match webkit's behavior. I don't have Webkit, but Blink matches Firefox. Here's the testcase: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?saved=3413 If Webkit does indeed do the sane thing, then we can change it, but I've seen several people misinterpret their text-indent testcases today, so I'm going to make you send screenshots before I believe you. :) ~fantasai
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