[csswg-drafts] [css-syntax] Reason for limited whitespace definition?

RByers has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [css-syntax] Reason for limited whitespace definition? ==
[css-syntax defines whitespace](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-syntax/#whitespace) to include:
```
U+000A LINE FEED
U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN
U+000C FORM FEED
U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION
U+0020 SPACE
```
Why not U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE or other [Unicode WS characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character#Unicode)?

In [this Chrome issue](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=748966#c2) a developer complained that someone found it confusing that what appeared to him like a space in his editor caused his CSS property to be ignored.

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1654 using your GitHub account

Received on Thursday, 27 July 2017 14:33:35 UTC