- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:00:33 +1000
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- CC: public-appformats@w3.org
Robin Berjon wrote: > On Jun 21, 2007, at 15:14, Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> Since the CSSWG recently resolved [1] to let the case sensitivity of >> namespace prefixes in selectors be defined by the mechanism used to >> declare them, I think you should make namespace prefixes for selectors >> used in XBL, which are declared using xmlns, be case sensitive. > > An alternative but potentially more fruitful and certainly more relaxing > approach would be to take a solid iron bar and visit every single member > of the CSS WG responsible this braindead decision and try to knock the > stupidity out of them, until they revert it. After all, the process says > consensus, it doesn't say how. I think you might have misunderstood either the decision they made or my proposal. It's a good decision because it lets each application of selectors decide whether to use case sensitive or insensitive prefixes, instead of being forced to use insensitive. Case sensitive makes implementation easier, since UAs don't need to worry about trying to implement Unicode's complex case folding rules. That means we're no longer forced to use case insensitive namespace prefixes in selectors in XBL, since they're declared using xmlns which is case sensitive. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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