- From: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:50:40 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 3/10/12 17:24, François REMY wrote:
> | > Actually, they are both.
> |
> | Well, right, but there is no problem in my mind with making property
> | _values_ case-sensitive as needed.
>
> If the property names are case insensitive, the way to reference them
> should be case insensitive, too. Otherwhise, you will get weird
> behaviors...
>
> {
> a: lower-value;
> A: UPPER-VALUE;
> b: use(a);
> C: use(A);
> }
>
> I think the sanest solution here is to have identifiers be
> ASCII-insensitives.
Why only ASCII? Do we have reason to believe that making them Unicode
case-insensitive (using the "simple" case folding algorithm, not
language-dependent mappings) would be problematic? ISTM that, while less
than perfect, it would be a big step forward from ASCII-only.
JK
Received on Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:50:59 UTC