- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:12:02 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Christian Roth <roth@visualclick.de>
- CC: www-style Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
On 12/4/02 12:35 PM, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Christian Roth wrote: >>> >>> By following the escape with a space (which is ignored), as in: >>> >>> "\0041 B" >>> >>> ...which is identical to: >>> >>> "AB" >> >> Does this actually work in CSS1? > > No (as you say, CSS1 doesn't expect a space after escapes) but that > doesn't matter, because all the major browsers support the CSS2 way: > > http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/css/parsing/escaping/003.html > > There aren't any CSS1 compliant UAs to my knowledge. Hmmm... perhaps an errata for CSS1 then to eliminate this incompatibility? > (Note: IE5 and Konqueror suck big time and get both the CSS1 and CSS2 ways > wrong. I think they might not support escapes at all. I *know* Ian meant IE5/Windows specifically when he wrote this, as IE5/Mac supports the CSS2 way as well as: > On Windows, Opera, > Mozilla, and IE6 pass it as CSS2 UAs.) Tantek
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