- From: Zack Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:54:08 -0700
- To: W3C Emailing list for WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Mozilla has a bug report[1] requesting that this: font-family: "lucida" grande; be treated as equivalent to this: font-family: lucida grande; There is no formal grammar for <family-name> and the prose does not say whether some-but-not-all tokens of a family-name can be quoted. Matter of fact, it doesn't really explain what the grammar is at all - it just says that certain punctuation characters must be \-escaped if they appear unquoted in a family-name. My preferred reading of the spec would disallow partial quotation, but what I really care about as an implementor is that there be an unambiguous, ideally formal, grammar for every nonterminal. zw [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481502 (note that the initial discussion is about font: rather than font-family:, but the requested change would affect both, and is easier to explain in terms of the longhand notation).
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