On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Masayuki Nakano <masay...@d-toybox.com> wrote: > HTML5 spec suggests the style of <abbr> and <acronym> is: > > abbr[title], acronym[title] { text-decoration: dotted underline; } > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/rendering.html#phrasing-content-0 > > However, we still use: > abbr[title], acronym[title] { border-block-end: dotted 1px; } > > Our style has trouble with some fonts which have large internal leading > and/or external leading (e.g., Meiryo, new Japanese font on Windows Vista or > later). With such fonts, the border-bottom is rendered too far from the > glyphs and may overlap with the next line. > > Therefore, we should use the suggested style.
Agreed. The dotted border was used originally to "fake" that kind of text-decoration effect, so now that we have the actual desired feature/effect, we should use it. > Blink uses same style as our current style. IE doesn't have any special > style for them (i.e., rendered like simple <span>). Note also that CSS3 Text Decoration (non-normatively) specifies that updated styling of abbr and acronym: http://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-decor-3/#default-stylesheet Thus we can cite that as well for our change. Thanks, Tantek > The bug to change the style: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1157083 > > -- > Masayuki Nakano <masay...@d-toybox.com> > Manager, Internationalization, Mozilla Japan. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform