On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 10:14:43AM +0100, Jonas Wielicki 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".
Could this be changed to "Spans MUST NOT overlap each others boundaries but may be nested (fully-contained) within other spans" ? This supports the usecase of striking through emphasized text. > 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. JC _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________
