- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:01:33 +0100
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Anne van Kesteren:
> One of the tests Microsoft has is testing this:
>
> 1am { so:awesome }
> @import "me";
>
> It expects "me" to be loaded.
>
> CSS 2.1 4.1.5 says: "CSS 2.1 user agents must ignore any '@import' rule
> that occurs inside a block or after any valid statement other than an
> @charset or an @import rule."
>
> "1am { so:awesome }" is a valid statement per the CSS core syntax.
> However, it is also not valid CSS 2.1. The text should be clarified in
> some way since implementors ended up doing different things.
I'd argue that we should not import in this case. If we do import,
extensions in the syntax may change the behavior of imports; in this
case, the import will stop working once "1am { so:awesome }" becomes
legal CSS syntax.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Wednesday, 4 February 2009 17:02:16 UTC