Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-24 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Christoph Päper wrote: Ian Hickson schrieb: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Christoph Päper wrote: there are probably worse compatibility issues with older specs and browsers than extra blank lines. Hopefully not in HTML5. :-) Isn't wrong numbering worse?

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Dave Hodder wrote: Please consider adding the 'l' element (as found in XHTML 2). The 'l' element can be used to break up text into separate lines, in a similar manner to the existing 'br' element. Unlike 'br', it is a container element; instead of pLine 1brLine 2/p,

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-23 Thread Christoph Päper
Ian Hickson: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Christoph P�per wrote: brfirst line/br Actually it's worse, /br is actually handled as br in browsers, so you'd end up with blank lines if we did this. Yeah, someone already told me by now. On the other hand, there are probably worse compatibility

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Christoph Päper wrote: Ian Hickson: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Christoph P�per wrote: brfirst line/br Actually it's worse, /br is actually handled as br in browsers, so you'd end up with blank lines if we did this. Yeah, someone already told me by now. On the

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-23 Thread Christoph Päper
Ian Hickson schrieb: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Christoph Päper wrote: there are probably worse compatibility issues with older specs and browsers than extra blank lines. Hopefully not in HTML5. :-) Isn't wrong numbering worse? HTML4 UA HTML5 UA ol reversed

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-23 Thread Smylers
Christoph Päper writes: Ian Hickson schrieb: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Christoph Päper wrote: there are probably worse compatibility issues with older specs and browsers than extra blank lines. Hopefully not in HTML5. :-) Isn't wrong numbering worse? HTML4

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-02-19 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:22:32 +0100, Christoph Päper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could also consider to reuse |br| for this purpose and thus make it magic, i.e. it is empty by default and works like it has always done, but if /br is encountered it turns the preceding br... (but not br.../)

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-02-19 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Christoph Päper wrote: Dave Hodder: Please consider adding the 'l' element (as found in XHTML 2). I think this has been discussed (much) earlier. Anyhow. We could also consider to reuse |br| for this purpose and thus make it magic, i.e. it is empty by default and works like it has always