[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Related to this I've run into a problem with ZWSP. HTML says that ZWSP > should collapse with other whitespace: > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#didx-white_space-1
It looks like HTML5 redefines whitespace to exclude ZWSP and include several other characters [1]. You may want to talk to the WHATWG and see what they suggest you do. [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#common1 > Currently we don't do this --- e.g. > A​ ​ ​B > Is rendered with two spaces. > > If we try to do this, things get complicated because we need to track > whether a run of whitespace is all zero-width whitespace (in which > case it should collapse into a zero-width whitespace) or there's some > non-zero-width whitespace (in which case it should collapse into a > regular space). But the problem *then* is that we can no longer always > retain the first space and eliminate the others. E.g. > <span>​</span>​ Foo > We don't know whether the ZWSP in the span survives or not until we > encounter the first non-ZWSP after it. This makes life very > uncomfortable. > > Any thoughts on what the right thing to do is here? > > Rob > -- dolphinling <http://dolphinling.net/> _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
