[html4all] From Ian H

Philip TAYLOR Philip-and-LeKhanh at Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org
Tue Aug 28 16:07:29 PDT 2007


Sorry, the "he" was defined in the Subject header !
Here is the full citation :

> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
>>
>> The change I am proposing would in fact describe Firefox behavior 
>> exactly.
> 
> What? No it wouldn't. The current text is correct. What testcases are you 
> talking about? Like David said, please demonstrate your case with the many 
> hundreds of test cases it would take to prove your case before trying to 
> change the spec here.
> 
> 
>> The way it is put now, it doesn't match any browser (since top border 
>> removes any effect of nested empty blocks).
> 
> So? Even if this were true, let's at least give the implementations a 
> chance to fix their code to match the spec before we start changing the 
> spec. If we keep moving the goal posts, browser vendors are going to stop 
> paying attention to us. Can we please leave this alone for several more 
> years before we start changing everything again?
> 
> -- 
> Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
> http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
> Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
> 
> 
--------
Robert Burns wrote:
> Phil,
> 
> Could you give us the context here? I can't tell who 'he' is or where  
> you're quoting from.
> 
> Take care,
> Rob




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