On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 12:58:45 PM UTC-7, Koji Ishii wrote:
> Summary:
> 
> Two recent HTML changes improve ruby support:
> 
> 1) Addition of the rb and rtc elements (but not rbc); and
> 
> 2) Matching update to the tag omission rules to make ruby authoring easier.
> 
> By implementing these changes, Gecko supports the parsing side of all the 
> ruby use cases required for the internationalization of HTML (see use cases 
> document below for details). It also enables the implementation of the CSS 
> Ruby Layout. The Japanese education market strongly requires this and a 
> Mozilla developer has already started working on it.

Could you elaborate on why we are using the more complicated W3C rules here 
instead of the simpler WHATWG rules, given that the WHATWG rules also address 
the same use cases?

See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33339#c110

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Ian Hickson
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