RE: Case Sensitivity Issue and CSSOM

IE 10 (on windows 7):

counter-reset: TeSt;
TeSt
TeSt
TeSt
TeSt

list-style-type: disc;
disc
disc
disc
disc

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James Ross silver@warwickcompsoc.co.uk
________________________________
> From: glenn@skynav.com 
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:52:54 -0700 
> To: www-style@w3.org 
> Subject: Fwd: Case Sensitivity Issue and CSSOM 
> 
> Anyone able to provide IE response? See attached. 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
> From: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com<mailto:glenn@skynav.com>> 
> Date: Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:42 PM 
> Subject: Re: Case Sensitivity Issue and CSSOM 
> To: fantasai <fantasai@inkedblade.net<mailto:fantasai@inkedblade.net>> 
> 
> The primary ones are: 
> 
> CSSStyleDeclaration.cssText 
> CSSStyleDeclaration.getPropertyValue() 
> CSSProperties2.{various} 
> 
> e.g. 
> 
> elt.style.cssText = 'counter-reset: TeSt'; 
> alert( 
> elt.style.cssText + "\n" + 
> elt.style.getPropertyValue('counter-reset') + "\n" + 
> elt.style.counterReset + "\n" + 
> getComputedStyle(elt).getPropertyValue('counter-reset') + "\n" + 
> getComputedStyle(elt).counterReset + "\n" 
> ); 
> 
> elt.style.cssText = 'list-style-type: DiSc'; 
> alert( 
> elt.style.cssText + "\n" + 
> elt.style.getPropertyValue('list-style-type') + "\n" + 
> elt.style.listStyleType + "\n" + 
> getComputedStyle(elt).getPropertyValue('list-style-type') + "\n" + 
> getComputedStyle(elt).listStyleType + "\n" 
> ); 
> 
> incidentally, the values returned above do not match between Safari, 
> Firefox, and Opera, though they are close: 
> 
> Safari 6.0.2 
> 
> counter-reset: TeSt 0; 
> TeSt 0 
> TeSt 0 
> TeSt 0 
> TeSt 0 
> 
> list-style-type: disc; 
> disc 
> disc 
> disc 
> disc 
> 
> Firefox 18.0.1 
> 
> counter-reset: TeSt; 
> TeSt 
> TeSt 
> TeSt 0 
> TeSt 0 
> 
> list-style-type: disc; 
> disc 
> disc 
> disc 
> disc 
> 
> Opera 12.12 
> 
> counter-reset: TeSt 
> TeSt 
> TeSt 
> TeSt 
> TeSt 
> 
> list-style-type: DiSc 
> disc 
> disc 
> disc 
> disc 
> 
> Although there are some minor differences between all of these three 
> browsers, it is clear that counter names are not case normalized but 
> list style types are case normalized, at least for the purpose of 
> returning the computed value. 
> 
> I can't say if the same case normalization is used when performing 
> comparisons internally. 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:59 PM, fantasai 
> <fantasai@inkedblade.net<mailto:fantasai@inkedblade.net>> wrote: 
> Hi Glenn! 
> I was wondering if you could post a list of APIs that return 
> CSS value keywords? I think it would be important to know 
> what gets returned for 
> counter-reset: TeSt; 
> list-style-type: DiSc; 
> 
> I'm worried that we'll make a decision that works fine for 
> matching within the CSS processing model, but creates problems 
> when we start to integrate it with the CSSOM and JS. 
> 
> ~fantasai 
> 
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 23 January 2013 09:11:27 UTC