On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Aryeh Gregor <a...@aryeh.name> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > > Single br tag is shorter than pairs of div tags when serialized. > > True, but only slightly, and the difference is even smaller if you use > <p> instead of <div>. This isn't enough of a reason by itself to > justify the extra complexity of another mode. Are there other > reasons? > > p has default margins. That alone is enough for us not to adopt p as the > default paragraph separator. Also, unfortunately, there are many legacy > contents that rely on the fact webkit uses div as the paragraph separator so > we need a global or per editing-host switch regardless. > > I almost want a global switch to toggle between legacy UA-specific behavior > and new spec-compliant behavior. > > - Ryosuke >
I've got a similar issue with copy/paste of HTML. If a switch were around for contentEditable, I might route through it on copy events in the page to tidy up some of the raw HTML clipboard. -Charles
