On 8 November 2017 at 09:14, Jonas Wielicki <jo...@wielicki.name> wrote: > On Mittwoch, 8. November 2017 08:44:16 CET Remko Tronçon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 7 November 2017 at 21:34, Jonas Wielicki <jo...@wielicki.name> wrote: >> > The XMPP Extensions Editor has received a proposal for a new XEP. >> >> Minor remark: the XEP says that spans MUST NOT overlap. Is there a reason >> for this? I'm asking, because the systems I have seen that use external >> markup >> like this don't impose this. > > I think the rule can be loosened to "MUST NOT overlap each others boundaries". > > This will be needed if we ever allow erasing characters (see the other branch > of this thread) to do so accurately. > > Overlapping boundaries however is tricky; XHTML and the big toolkits (Gtk and > Qt) don’t support that either (you have to merge the styles manually in the > overlapping region, if I’m not mistaken). So I’d like to have the sender fix > that up, because they’ll have to anyways.
What would a receiver do if spans partially overlap? Should the receiver reject the message, ignore the offending span[s], or what? Dave. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________