Re: Custom property names: property name namespaces?

ewexler@stickdog.com wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>> The hyphen is the character recommended by the working group to use as prefixes 
>> for proprietary properties.
>>
>> Specifically, the suggested syntax to use is:
>>
>>    -vendor-property
> 
> Why does the working group suggest a lexical illegality when the risk of 
> name conflicts without the illegality remains trivially low?  Lexical 
> conformance is something whose importance I want to \_underscore\_.

Because underscores are ugly.

However, as I said, if the lexical illegality is a big deal for anyone then 
underscores are an acceptable substitute.

-- 
Ian Hickson
``The inability of a user agent to implement part of this specification due to
the limitations of a particular device (e.g., non interactive user agents will
probably not implement dynamic pseudo-classes because they make no sense
without interactivity) does not imply non-conformance.'' -- Selectors, Sec13