Forget what I said about whitespace

Both IE and Netscape implement whitespace stripping and token 
matching incorrectly in CSS, thus I'm sure that it will become part 
of the standard:

Consider:

background:repeaturl(image.gif);

That, according to the core grammar and property rules is perfectly 
valid in CSS and implies that the background image "image.gif" is 
repeated in all directions.

But alas, neither explorer nor netscape recognize this... meaning 
that for compatiblity with existing browsers we cannot strip any 
space at all from the files -- we'll still recognize the above, but 
will have to put space back in afterwards.

All these problems because space was used as a token!

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Received on Thursday, 11 December 1997 18:00:18 UTC