On Wednesday 2014-07-02 10:05 +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Koji Ishii <kojii...@gluesoft.co.jp> wrote:
> > Platform coverage: all platforms (parsing only, layout will be in separate 
> > intents)
> 
> The parsing change is the easy part. Is there a plan to get the layout
> part implemented?
> 
> My general take on this issue is:
>  1) As far as assigning the time of core developers goes, it seems
> that there's always higher-priority stuff to work on instead of
> complex ruby layout.
>  2) If someone else has different priorities, really values complex
> ruby working and can develop an implementation that truly just takes
> normal review time from the core developers, I think it makes sense
> let someone other than the core developers to implement complex ruby.
>  3) I think the HTML parsing algorithm shouldn't be used as a way to
> block point 2 from happening.
> 
> But is point 2 happening?

We have a summer intern working on ruby this summer; I'm reasonably
optimistic that she'll get much of css-ruby implemented, although
maybe omitting some of the harder bits like 'ruby-position:
inter-character' (which really isn't so much hard as different from
the rest and therefore requiring separate code).

See the 7-digit dependencies of
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=256274&maxdepth=1&hide_resolved=0

-David

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