- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:37:36 +0100
- To: W3C Style List <www-style@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:49:03 +0100, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> > wrote: >> We should try to close the issue of a formal syntax for Media Queries. >> The CSS WG discussed it yesterday and reached the following consensus: >> >> - escapes should be handled according to the rules of the host >> language. (This means one cannot always cut and paste between HTML >> and CSS files, but escapes aren't that common so the use case is >> slim.) > > This is different from Selectors Level 3 which has been at CR/LC level > for quite some time now. I don't think we should deviate from it. If some people wants to use Selectors in a language with a different syntax than CSS's, it's up to them to adapt the notation. And if that requires different escapes (or different white space, different comments, etc.), that's fine by me. But we, the CSS WG, don't define any such syntaxes. Media Queries is different. We explicitly define how Media Queries are to be used in certain HTML and XML constructs and thus we have to define the syntax in those contexts. I neither want to require support for backslash escapes in HTML and XML, nor for ampersand escapes in CSS. That implies it is possible to construct expressions that cannot be cut-and-pasted with a simple text editor, but I consider cut and paste a nice feature, not an absolute requirement. And in practice I don't expect to see many escapes in media queries anyway. Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM 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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