Re: WD-CSS21-20020802 section 3, "Conformance: Requirements and Recommendations", substantive comments

Kevin Smith wrote to <www-style@w3.org> on 14 November 2002 in 'Re:
WD-CSS21-20020802 section 3, "Conformance: Requirements and
Recommendations", substantive comments'
(<mid:B9F92321.1517D%k.smith@tatnet.com>):

>     in CSS1, selectors (element names, classes and IDs) [...]
>     cannot start with a dash or a digit [...]

Good catch.  I was going by a passage more familiar to me, although
admittedly non-normative:

    In CSS1, a class name could start with a digit
    (".55ft"), unless it was a dimension (".55in").

That comes from CSS2:D.3, "Comparison of tokenization in CSS2 and CSS1",
<http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/grammar.html>.

Add an errata for CSS2, I suppose.

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Etan Wexler <mailto:ewexler@stickdog.com>