- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:08:27 +0100
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > And what is the main reason of separating vendor-specific > extensions (VSE) "Keywords and property names, beginning with -' or '_' are > reserved for vendor-specific extensions."? > > Anyway CSS parser already knows how to deal with something like: > width: expression(my cool script goes here); > and unknown attributes. > > So what is the point? I cannot see any technical reasons for such a > strange way of > VSE separations. This addresses the future, not now. So that vendor extensions are not going to conflict with new W3C CSS specifications. > I mean these '-' and '_' are only half of the problem - as this rule is > about identifiers only. > There could be even different syntactic vendor specific constructions > (everybody know examples I guess) > or even different length units as in our case (%%). BTW: my question > about vendor specific units left unanswered. > E.g. someone would want to use something like "physical-pixel" instead > of current "logical-pixel" and the like... > What to do? Use _foo_%% I guess. (Where 'foo' represents your company.) Or -foo-%%. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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