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Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/27/06 09:26
Ben C wrote:
> You can safely say, for example, that a conforming UA will not place
> right floats to the left of left floats (in the same block formatting
> context). If that isn't an expectation about how a document will be
> rendered, then I don't know what is.
This is perhaps a safe statement to say, but it's also an obscure case
and so is largely unhelpful. As it's only possible safely to say these
pathological cases with any certainty, and it's not possible to be so
precise about the many less definite cases, then it's not a
particularly useful operation to spend considerable time defining the
small subset of CSS rendering that it's possible to define so
forthrightly. Even if it were done, it still wouldn't be of much help
as it leaves far too much unsaid.
The fact that the W3C could be definitively prescriptive about a few
cases doesn't mean that they have been, that they should, or that they
could be equally adamant about the majority of rendering.
Is there really much issue over multiple interpretations of the CSS
spec anyway, as opposed to mis-interpretations (IE box model) that can
be cleared up by more careful study of the spec alone? We have a real
problem with lack of clarity and the second problem, but not (IMHO) the
first.
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