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<body class=draft>
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<h1>HTML Editing Commands</h1>
-<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=work-in-progress-—-last-update-16-may-2011>Work in Progress — Last Update 16 May 2011</h2>
+<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=work-in-progress-—-last-update-17-may-2011>Work in Progress — Last Update 17 May 2011</h2>
<dl>
<dt>Editor
<dd>Aryeh Gregor <ayg+spec@aryeh.name>
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<li>Tim Down <a href=http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-May/031655.html>points
out</a> that browsers have special behavior for formatting commands when the
selection is collapsed. Needs investigation.
+
+ <li>What should be used as a line separator? See <a href=http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-May/031577.html>lengthy
+ discussion</a>. I see no strong arguments in favor of any of the three
+ existing behaviors, so I'm weakly in favor of following the plurality, namely
+ IE/Opera's behavior of using <code class=external data-anolis-spec=html title="the p element"><a href=http://www.whatwg.org/html/#the-p-element>p</a></code>. This affects not only what happens when
+ the user hits Enter, but also what happens when we need to separate lines for
+ other reasons (e.g., outdenting a list). We likely want switches to allow
+ authors to control this behavior, like Gecko's insertBrOnReturn and Opera's
+ opera-defaultblock. Currently the spec assumes <code class=external data-anolis-spec=html title="the br element"><a href=http://www.whatwg.org/html/#the-br-element>br</a></code> should separate lines,
+ which is like Gecko and sometimes WebKit.
</ul>
<p class=XXX>A variety of other issues are also noted in the text, formatted
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<li>Tim Down <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-May/031655.html">points
out</a> that browsers have special behavior for formatting commands when the
selection is collapsed. Needs investigation.
+
+ <li>What should be used as a line separator? See <a
+ href=http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-May/031577.html>lengthy
+ discussion</a>. I see no strong arguments in favor of any of the three
+ existing behaviors, so I'm weakly in favor of following the plurality, namely
+ IE/Opera's behavior of using [[p]]. This affects not only what happens when
+ the user hits Enter, but also what happens when we need to separate lines for
+ other reasons (e.g., outdenting a list). We likely want switches to allow
+ authors to control this behavior, like Gecko's insertBrOnReturn and Opera's
+ opera-defaultblock. Currently the spec assumes [[br]] should separate lines,
+ which is like Gecko and sometimes WebKit.
</ul>
<p class=XXX>A variety of other issues are also noted in the text, formatted