[whatwg] Update to the Adoption Agency Algorithm
David Hyatt
hyatt at apple.com
Thu Feb 2 15:01:08 PST 2006
BTW, we tried to add <span> as an inline that should be reopened
(like <font> and <b> etc.) and it broke some of our layout tests
(snippets of real-world Web sites). <span> clearly does not always
reopen in WinIE and Firefox, so for now we are having to leave it out.
dave
On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Blanchard, Todd wrote:
> What I want to know is: if the "cloned" node has an id attribute,
> and id is meant to be unique, then how do we resolve this
> conflict? I mention this because bad html and duplicate id's in
> documents have caused havoc when trying to build javascript
> applications.
>
> -Todd Blalnchard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org [mailto:whatwg-
> bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 6:12 PM
> To: whatwg at whatwg.org
> Subject: [whatwg] Update to the Adoption Agency Algorithm
>
>
> Just a note to those of you who reviewed the new parsing rules
> yesterday:
> I changed them today to take into account some feedback from Hyatt.
> Basically the old algorithm was creating too many nodes. This is
> now fixed, the algorithm only moves the nodes that are being
> closed, not the other inlines it happens to cross.
>
> http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#closing
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Ian Hickson U+1047E )
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