- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:41:57 +0100
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:32:01 +0100, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 2007-11-14 18:01 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> I agree that it doesn't make sense to allow escapes. After all, the spec >> are Basic Latin identifiers--not arbitrary strings. > > Have you tested what existing implementations do with character > escapes? (Assuming that those implementations support character > escapes in CSS.) In both media queries in HTML and in CSS? http://tc.labs.opera.com/mediaqueries/parsing/022.htm tests it for HTML. Safari 3 supports escaping and Opera 9.5 doesn't. > The implementation that I'd started to write for Mozilla would have > accepted character escapes, although it wouldn't be too much extra > work to disallow them in one or both modes. But I expect > implementors may default to accepting them. I personally was sort of convinced by the argument that HTML entities do not work in CSS either. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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