- From: Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:42:32 +0200
- To: Miguel Garcia <miguel.garcia@fundacionctic.org>
- CC: public-mobileok-checker <public-mobileok-checker@w3.org>
Miguel Garcia wrote:
> Hello
>
> There is a remaining css related bug, this is bug 5890 - Carriage
> returns in CSS Styles not correctly handled. Currently the checker is
> processing CSS line by line but is correct to write a carriage return in
> the middle of a style like
>
> p { font
> :
>
>
> bold italic
> 12px Palatino, serif }
>
> (I haven't checked if the CSS specification really allows this kind of
> syntax but the css validator doesn't trigger any error on the previous
> code).
The CSS1 grammar is a bit hard to read, but it does allow this kind of
syntax, indeed.
>
> We have thought 3 possible solutions:
>
> 1) Process all CSS code in all together instead of line by line. It will
> be quite fast to implement this approach but the drawback is that will
> lose the line number of the error.
[...]
>
> The second option is more a workaround than a real fix and we are
> lacking enough time to choose the third one.
>
> Any other thoughts, or any point we are missing?
I think you've said it all ;)
I haven't checked, though, do we only lose the line of code or do we
also lose the code excerpt?
The former one is a plus, but not that compulsory I suppose. The latter
one is more of a problem, IMO.
Francois.
Received on Monday, 28 July 2008 15:43:05 UTC