[webkit-dev] Ruby design document

[Roland Steiner]

Hi Dave,

thanks for the feedback! To answer some of the questions you raised:

.) There certainly is a demand for this feature in Japan, China, and other
countries. The only browser that natively supports ruby currently is IE, so
I would assume most of the pages that use ruby today are written at least
with IE in mind. Therefore, the base line would be compatibility with that,
which boils down to implementing the HTML5 spec.

There are also apparently still be some pages left that adhere to a very
early ruby draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-ruby-19990322/), but I'm not
sure it's worth extra work to try to support that (haven't looked at that in
great detail yet).

.) IE (at least IE8) honors 'float' and 'position' on ruby elements, and
also 'display:block' works as expected.

.) Multiple runs within a single <ruby> element are rendered correctly in IE
(which I would suppose is the original reason for their inclusion in HTML5).
IE also line-breaks those runs.


Cheers,

Roland


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:39 PM, David Hyatt <hyatt at apple.com> wrote:

> On Jun 3, 2009, at 7:33 PM, David Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>> The CSS3 draft is clearly very incomplete and not ready for primetime, so
>> the more I look at it, the more I'm thinking we should maybe just limit
>> ourselves to an HTML5/IE-compatible implementation.
>>
>>
>>
> In other words I'm thinking we should just make <ruby> the only way you can
> make these things, and not necessarily support the CSS stuff yet.  I am
> concerned about crashes related to crazy interactions of all these new ruby
> display types (every time we add new display types the render tree
> complexity goes up, since any element can implement the display type and be
> put inside any other display type).
>
> For example, I don't even think display:ruby should be the right way to
> make a ruby in CSS, since a ruby clearly can be either block-level or
> inline-level.  You need two display types and not just one.
>
> How the ruby box model works in CSS is woefully underspecified as well.
>
> For now we could just hardcode the creation of the specific renderers when
> the tag names are encountered.  This has the added benefit of allowing you
> to make a ruby inline or block by changing the display type.  I'd suggest
> testing in IE in fact to see what happens when you float/position a ruby or
> when you specifically put "display:block" on a ruby.
>
> dave
> (hyatt at apple.com)
>
>
>
>
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