- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:31:30 -0800
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "Anne van Kesteren" <fora@annevankesteren.nl>, <www-style@w3.org>
Thanks, Ian, > For those two cases it doesn't matter if the units are obscure (e.g. > "_moz_ch" would be perfectly find for an experimental implementation of > the proposed "ch" unit). I understand "how" but do not understand "why"... What is the purpose of introducing namespaces using such strange method and notation? Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com From: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: >> > > >> > > ....BTW: my question about vendor specific units left unanswered. >> > > What to do? >> > >> > Use _foo_%% I guess. (Where 'foo' represents your company.) Or -foo-%%. >> >> Thanks for advice, Anne, but CSS grammar[1] treats units as part of value >> and all possible combinations are listed literaly there. >> >> And no one human would understand the meaning of >> calc( 10px-100-TerraInformaticaSoftwareInc-%% ) >> without taking glass of vodka first. > > So don't use them. Vendor-specific extensions are not supposed to be used > anyway, they're only for experimental implementations and internal code. > For those two cases it doesn't matter if the units are obscure (e.g. > "_moz_ch" would be perfectly find for an experimental implementation of > the proposed "ch" unit). > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
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