- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:11:37 -0800
- To: Justin Rogers <justrog@microsoft.com>
- CC: Zack Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com>, W3C Emailing list for WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>, "info@gtalbot.org" <info@gtalbot.org>
Justin Rogers wrote:
> I believe we treat this in the CSS 2.1 parser in IE 8 standards mode as an error,
> not as gre\00000Aen. The reason is this:
>
> escape {unicode}|\\[^\r\n\f0-9a-f]
>
> The hat symbol in that matching group means NOT any of those characters. So you
> can't have a \ followed by a \n. This means we treat \ as an unknown token, then
> we treat the \n as some space then we continue with a second identifier on the
> following line.
Hm, it seems in that case that we have a conflict in the spec.
I'll note that the character class excludes \r\n\f, but not spaces.
That seems very inconsistent to me.
~fantasai
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