- From: Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:56:33 -0700
Hello Adrienne, I'm not sure how good or bad IE is in general at this stuff. But I know escaping the ":" works in IE (for CSS)... because I did it before. (Works in Firefox too of course.) See ya On 5/17/07, Adrienne Travis <altravis at eidolongroup.com> wrote: > > Charles, > > I went and looked, and per the spec you're right (any Unicode > character, escaped, is valid) -- BUT, how do parsers/UAs treat them? I > know IE has trouble with certain escaped characters, for instance. Not > that i'm interested in coddling IE -- but it'd be good to make sure > that more forward-thinking UAs aren't making the same mistake. > > Adrienne > > > > On 5/17/07, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Adrienne, > > > > On 5/17/07, Adrienne Travis <altravis at eidolongroup.com> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > But unfortunately, that > > > totally breaks backwards-compatibility if not done very carefully. (If > > > i declare class="dc:author" , i CAN'T address that in my stylesheet. > > > > I believe you can style the class name "dc:author" with CSS code like > the > > following... > > > > dc\:author { > > /* Your style here */ > > } > > > > (Note the backslash in there.) > > > > So, no need for doing stuff with dashes. > > > > > > > If the namespacing was handled with dashes, like class="dc-author", > > > that would work, though.) > > > > [...] > > > > > > See ya > > > > > > -- > > Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. > > > > charles @ reptile.ca > > supercanadian @ gmail.com > > > > developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ > > > > > -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.ca supercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070517/0af71177/attachment.htm>
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