Re: ISSUE-231 [again]: MINIMIZE and whitespace in CSS

Le vendredi 25 avril 2008 à 11:36 +0200, Francois Daoust a écrit :
> My understanding of the decision to postpone counting whitespace in CSS 
> was twofold:
> 1. because we didn't want to introduce any substantive change to the 
> document.
> 2. because we didn't want to make too many changes in the document 
> itself to have it out ASAP.

I think 1. is not only about the related process (i.e. the need to go
back to last call), but rather than introducing another substantive
change creates higher risks that we get something wrong, or not
described in enough details, and that we then need to do further changes
down the line.

In this case, not counting whitespace opens plenty of related questions:
 * should we count as extraneous the part of a style sheet that doesn't
apply to @media handheld?
 * what is the exact algorithm to detect extraneous white space in css?
 * what about comments in css? non-well formed comments?

So, I would still err on the side of caution, and keep that one for a next version.
(But I won't be around much in the upcoming few days, so if there is
consensus to do otherwise, don't count this as an objection)

Dom

> [1] http://www.w3.org/2008/04/17-bpwg-minutes.html#item02
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-bpwg/2008Jan/0048.html
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2008/04/24-bpwg-minutes.html#item03

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