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Re: [css3-mediaqueries] Request for feedback on syntax

From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:25:24 +0200
Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
Message-Id: <2850EEDD-7487-4AA5-8188-F93886C4E208@iki.fi>
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>

On Dec 22, 2007, at 12:13, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:04:24 +0100, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net 
> > wrote:
>>   - CSS backslash escapes are not allowed. The host language's  
>> escapes
>>     can of course be used. Consider that if you embed Media Queries  
>> or
>>     Selectors in a language that uses backslashes for its escapes. If
>>     we imported CSS backslash escapes the situation would be very
>>     confusing there. Also I don't see a use case.

FWIW, this kind of thing happens in practice with regular expression  
literals in Java which doesn't have a Python-style "raw" string  
literals.

> I think we should consider realistic host languages, not theoretical  
> ones. Also, even in theoretical ones you'd like to able to express  
> every character sequence (including a CSS escape) otherwise we  
> already have issues in theoretical host languages. (Those who use  
> comma's, parenthesis or ASCII characters for syntax.)


I think it is relatively safe to assume that realistic host languages  
themselves provide an escaping mechanism so that all non-control Basic  
Latin characters can be expressed.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
Received on Saturday, 22 December 2007 14:25:38 UTC

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