- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:04:47 +0100
- To: daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> We then propose to restrict whitespaces in the nth-child()'s argument
> to ONLY after the '(' and before the ')'. Since this is not the common
> practice in CSS - whitespace is usually allowed everywhere - we would
> like the web designers community to let us know if they think it's an
> acceptable compromise or if you think for instance that web authors
> will make a lot of mistakes putting invalid whitespaces inside the
> expression.
This looks like an acceptable solution since a) it does not affect all “:nth-child()” use cases (like “tr:nth-child(odd)”) and b) will be less of a problem anyway assuming that less experienced web developers will be less likely to use this pseudo-class at all.
(Hapless inconsistency though.)
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Jens Meiert
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Received on Tuesday, 11 March 2008 19:05:23 UTC