- From: Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:36:52 +0200
- To: public-bpwg@w3.org
Apologies to bring up an issue that was resolved last week [1]... but ;-) My understanding of the decision to postpone counting whitespace in CSS was twofold: 1. because we didn't want to introduce any substantive change to the document. 2. because we didn't want to make too many changes in the document itself to have it out ASAP. For 1., it's already too late, we introduced some substantive changes with resolution on ISSUE-234, and we're to publish the doc in Last Call again. For 2., since the code is already dormant in the code, I thought it was merely a question of activating it and performing minor edition updates (and Jo so much loves edition that he probably would welcome some more work in that area ;-)), but then I remembered the discussion on the definition of whitespaces in CSS [2], and realize it probably isn't that easy to handle it correctly, and would involve not-so-trivial changes in the doc as well as in the checker code, and its associated test suites... Anyway, I'm raising this on the mailing-list as agreed during this week's call [3]: Given that 1. doesn't stand anymore, should we reconsider our decision to postpone counting whitespace in CSS? If in favor, stand up, clap your hands, and reply. If against it, let this thread die or vehemently oppose. Because of 2., I don't think this is such a good idea anymore and cowardly vote 0 to my own proposal... François. References: [1] http://www.w3.org/2008/04/17-bpwg-minutes.html#item02 [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-bpwg/2008Jan/0048.html [3] http://www.w3.org/2008/04/24-bpwg-minutes.html#item03
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