- From: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:27:20 +0100 (MET)
- cc: www-style@w3.org
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, David Woolley wrote: > > The subject of this thread is part of the confusion. The rules aren't > about error recovery but about forward compatibility; they are intended > to be applied to valid future versions of CSS, so that current renderers > fail in a minimally degraded way, not to invalid current ones. > Indeed. I had started to write a long e-mail about the three stages of CSS parsing (tokenization, generic CSS, specific CSS1/2/3/SVG/Mobile/etc. parsing) and how the rules for ignoring tokens only apply to the last stage, but David Woolley stated it much better. A file that fails the generic CSS grammar is simply not CSS and the spec says nothing about that case. (Whether it should is a whole different debate.) Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos/ W3C/INRIA bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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