- From: Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:13:29 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
--- I wrote:
> key-equivalent
> --------------
>
> <q>
> A <key-press-combination> is one or more characters with one or more
> modifier keys separated by dashes ('-').
> </q>
>
> This won't work. The tokenization of CSS is such that this is
> unworkable.
>
> Take this example from the appendix:
>
> [accesskey]:enabled
> {
> key-equivalent:accesskey-attr(accesskey);
> }
>
> That would be parsed as an IDENT, a '(', a IDENT and a ')'.
>
> What is desired is for it to be parsed as IDENT DELIM FUNCTION IDENT
> ')',
> but because the longest match determines the token, this wouldn't
> happen.
>
> There is no way around this because the standard declaration production
> (necessarily) includes IDENT.
>
> It would be better to use the underscore.
Or even '+', which is the conventional symbol used for these purposes.
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From Matthew Brealey (http://members.tripod.co.uk/lawnet (for law)or http://members.tripod.co.uk/lawnet/WEBFRAME.HTM (for CSS))
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Received on Sunday, 27 February 2000 20:13:30 UTC