- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:10:54 -0800
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Cc: "CSS WWW Style (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:25 AM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I think you can have case sensitive user identifiers and still match
> existing keywords case insensitively. I don't see that as being that
> confusing to authors.
I believe it would be confusing if "@counter-style foo {}" and
"@counter-style FOO {}" defined two different counter styles, but
"@counter-style square {}" and "@counter-style SQUARE {}" defined the
same counter style and overrode each other.
The same argument for confusion can be made for property names, if
"color" and "COLOR" are the same property, but "var-color" and
"var-COLOR" and "VAR-color" are all different property names. The
latter also makes it harder to deal with the var() function, which
drops the var- prefix from the variable name - is the "var" part of a
custom property name CI, but the rest CS? Is it only valid if you
write literally "var-", not "VAR-"?
>The flip side is if you make counters match
> case insensitively, why don't class names match case insensitively?
I am okay with technically separate technologies such as Selectors
having different expectations and rules.
~TJ
Received on Wednesday, 16 January 2013 10:11:43 UTC