[whatwg] Handling of collapsed whitespace in contenteditable

Ryosuke Niwa rniwa at webkit.org
Mon Jun 20 15:05:36 PDT 2011


On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Is that really such a problem?  At worst, there will be annoying
> mismatches between the same content when it's editable and not
> editable.  Usually these won't really mess up the document, but if the
> author notices and compares in a debugger, they'll easily be able to
> figure out that the different white-space value is what's causing the
> problem, and be able to fix it.


Problem is that not all user agents, in particular, mail clients support
white-space: pre-wrap.

- Ryosuke



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