On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:57:48 -0700, Kenneth Kin Lum
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It does feel a little different from the idea that HTML is the "content"
and CSS is the "presentation", because if CSS decides whether the white
spaces that an author put in the HTML file get rendered or not, then it
seems like the CSS is deciding on what the content is too, as whitespace
characters can also be considered part of the content.
CSS can also decide that an entire element is not rendered using
display:none.
More or less, yes. You'd have to read the parsing algorithm in HTML5 to
get the exact details.
I think one thing is that in the HTML 4.01 spec, it seem to hint at how
white space can be processed, such as collapsing the white spaces or how
it is handled in different languages. So it may lead to readers
thinking that white space is first processed in the HTML layer to decide
whether whitespaces get stored in the parsed result, even before the CSS
layer can touch it. Could the HTML spec state that white space
processing
is not done at all in the HTML layer, that all white spaces is retained
in the parsed result (in the DOM tree?).
This is already done in the "Parsing HTML Documents" section.
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Anne van Kesteren
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