- From: Thomas Ashe <Thomas.Ashe@Blackbaud.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:26:00 -0400
- To: "'Sue Sims'" <sue@opera.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:32 AM, Sue Sims [mailto:sue@opera.com] wrote: > >> Underscores are not allowed in class names. > >> I suggest using a hyphen instead. > > >Actually as of last week they are. :-| > > And why was that change made? I don't recall seeing discussion of it > here. > Back on 12/7/1999, this was discussed in the thread entitled "background-Image Problem with Netscape Communicator 4.7" [1], in which Peter S. Linss stated[2]: > I brought this up as either a CSS2 errata item or a CSS3 extension (don't > remember which) but underscores should be considered legal in identifiers > shortly. With that in mind, Mozilla already supports them. You also commented on that thread.[3] :-) -Tom [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Dec/0043.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Dec/0050.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Dec/0055.html
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