[css3-background] box-shadow syntax

I noticed what seems to be a mistake or anomaly in the syntax specification for 
the box-shadow property. The current syntax (as seen at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-box-shadow) is laid out as:

none | [ <length> <length> <length>? || <color> ] [ , <length> <length> 
<length>? || <color> ]+

 From what I understand about the notation used for the formats of values and 
from the description of the property, this is not what the spec would expect. 
Something like:

2px 2px #000

is forbidden due to the plus sign (+) after the second bracketed group. It seems 
this should be an asterisk (*) so the second bracketed group can be omitted if 
necessary. (I agree with the comment there, though: what are the use cases of 
multiple shadows? But I digress.)

If I'm misreading the spec, I apologize in advance. It would be useful to know 
what I missed, though.

Eli Morris-Heft
dai@doublefishstudios.com

Received on Tuesday, 6 May 2008 22:55:43 UTC