- From: Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:07:00 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:56:40 +0200, Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org> wrote: > Hi, > I was just wondering what was the rationale for allowing spaces between > <num> and '/' and between '/' and <num> in [1]. It might be better to > have no space, as '/' is used elsewhere either as an operator, or as a > 'state change' where it can happen between two numbers as well (and > mandating one space would help disambiguating them). > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-css3-mediaqueries-20100727/#values We saw no need to forbid spaces when this was designed. In other places where we have slashes, we allow spaces too. Since no ambiguity arises from the way <ratio> is used, and since we have multiple inter-operable implementations, it does not make much sense to change it now. Does this answer your question? - Florian
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