Simplify whitespace collapsing/trimming for text nodes ; Support in Core?
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- HTML
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Description
"Whitespace collapsing/trimming
https://www.w3.org/TR/MathML/chapter2.html#fund.collapse
Whitespace collapsing is consistent with the default CSS property
"white-space" and people are familiar with it.
Removing "whitespace at the beginning and end of the content" is less
expected. Gecko has some code to handle this but it would be very
helpful to avoid this additional complexity. WebKit does not handle it
at the moment and it's not clear it's worth doing it... Except in the
MathML spec/test, everybody seems to just write ( and not
( . Can we deprecate this behavior in MathML4? Or maybe you should
work with the HTML5 WG to define such collapsing rules during document
parsing, so that the MathML rendering code no longer need to handle it?"
original report: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-math/2016Aug/0000.html
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Research direction
Start with the linked MathML chapter 2 whitespace-collapsing section and compare it with the original www-math report. Review the current MathML Core behavior and determine whether trimming should be simplified, deprecated, or defined during HTML parsing. Done means a documented resolution for the Core specification and its expected behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css, html
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100