Re: [CSSWG] Resolutions 2008-03-04 and 2008-03-11

On Mar 11, 2008, at 9:49 AM, fantasai wrote:

>   RESOLVED: White space is allowed in functional pseudos just after (
>   and just before ). Preliminary conclusion on whitespace inside 2n+1
>   is no white space allowed; this may be modified if feedback from web
>   designers indicates it will be a usability problem. (Daniel Glazman
>   will follow up.)

As a Web Designer, i can live with it. I would have preferred to be  
able to put space on either or both sides of the plus sign (as in  
JavaScript statements, for instance), especially to the left (so that  
" +1" reads as a positive number and " -1" reads as a negative  
number, which also may help in explaining the feature). Conceptually,  
I group the parts in my head as (2n + 1), or (2n +1), as with a math  
equation.

But I can get by with no white space. I personally wouldn't expect  
there to ever be space between the "2" and the "n". And I almost  
never write parentheses with spaces immediately inside them, not in  
English, math, or JavaScript (unless I have a lot of nested  
parentheses, where the spaces provide clarity).