- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:29:37 +0100
- To: "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, "XHTML WG" <public-xhtml2@w3.org>
- Cc: "Forms WG" <public-forms@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:42:07 +0100, Steven Pemberton
<steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
> In the context of the following
>
> @namespace "http://example.org/ns"
>
> foo {color: green}
>
> with a non-namespaced CSS processor all elements named foo will be green,
> while with a namespaced processor, only elements in the namespace named
> will be green.
>
> This seems to break an axiom of CSS versioning that later versions of CSS
> should not change the processing of earlier versions; it will therefore
> make it hard to make a stylesheet that works regardless of the presence
> of namespace processing.
>
> It would seem better if unqualified names continue to behave in the same
> way as non-namespaced processors, and that to select a particular
> namespaced version of an element, you should always use a qualified name.
We discussed this and since @namespace has been around for a long time it
would probably break more if we removed the ability to do default
namespaces in CSS. In its almost nine years of existence this hasn't been
a problem really and we expect it to be not much of a hassle going
forward. Please let us know if you disagree with this response.
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
Received on Thursday, 13 March 2008 08:29:59 UTC