- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 17:00:07 +0000
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Rossen Atanassov <Rossen.Atanassov@microsoft.com>
- CC: Greg Whitworth <gwhit@microsoft.com>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, Francois Remy <frremy@microsoft.com>, CSS WG <www-style@w3.org>
On 4/2/16, 9:22 AM, "fantasai" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: >On 04/01/2016 03:47 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> While this may have some theoretical value, there are no authors in >> the wild today depending on this, as IE is the only browser that >> preserves things exactly. All other browsers simplify at least >> somewhat, so authors already have to deal with the fact that their >> input and output might not be identical (or else they're writing >> really broken code). > >This is a very misleading statement. Mozilla only simplifies numerical >factors, so in fact IE and Mozilla's behaviors are very close and >preserve almost everything. > http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?saved=4029 > >Also, Rossen's concern (which I share) is not just about what authors >are depending on right now (given lack of interop between Blink/Webkit >and IE/FF, it's probably not much), but what would be useful for them >to have going into the future. Given that we’re talking about debugging, lack of browser interop may be a more minor factor than is usual. If one or more browsers have more useful debugging tool behavior, it’s likely that people *do* depend on it if it happens to be the browser they choose to start development in. Thanks, Alan
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