- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:27:17 -0700
- To: Justin Rogers <justrog@microsoft.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
fantasai wrote:
>
> Justin Rogers wrote:
>> An @media block in the grammar is defined as a MEDIA_SYM followed by
>> an LBRACE followed by optional rule-sets followed by an RBRACE.
>> Because @media is a known at-block with pre-defined semantics we treat
>> the grammar piece as absolute and I think other browsers do as well,
>> but there is one discrepancy. Here is the test case and the results.
>> ...
>> So the question is, should the grammar in this case be read strictly
>> since it clearly points out a semantic for the @media block, and thus
>> only allow rule-sets making the Opera/IE 8 behavior correct? Or should
>> the parsers allow any statement within the block including the at-rule?
>
> Recorded as CSS2.1 Issue 62:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0245.html
>
> I think we want Firefox's behavior here, as that is forwards-compatible.
Revised proposal:
State in 7.2.1 that "At-rules inside @media are invalid in
CSS2.1. Invalid at-rules inside @media blocks must be ignored
per 4.2 Rules for handling parsing errors."
~fantasai
Received on Wednesday, 30 July 2008 08:27:58 UTC