[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 47046] REGRESSION (r63517): Apple concierge website broken because of text node between HEAD and BODY

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47046


Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |hsivonen at iki.fi,
                   |                            |ian at hixie.ch




--- Comment #5 from Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org>  2010-10-02 22:17:15 PST ---
I complained about this change when we first implemented it.  I can dig up the W3C bug if you like.  The spec skips some whitespace nodes early in the document for compatibility.  At the time Ian's position was that skipping these nodes is aesthetically ugly because you lose information about the original document.  You can see this effect, for example, when you serialize the DOM back to a string.

My guess is this issue will come down to an estimate of how many cites are affected.  If this is the first one that we and Henri have seen, we might try to evangelize it (especially since it's from a company that, you know, makes a web browser).  If we see more examples, we might want to change the spec.

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