Re: [css21] @import parsing

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

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> On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:55:18 +0100, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 2009-02-04 13:43 -0800, Peter Linss wrote:
>>> Agreed. Perhaps the text should read: "after any well-formed statement",
>>> or simply "after any statement".
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>> I'm a little uncomfortable with ignoring @import after an unknown
>> @-rule.  That would mean we couldn't extend CSS with new @-rules
>> that belong before @import.  (For example, an @base rule to set the
>> base URL, like html:base or xml:base.)
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> I think it does not really matter either way. Introducing e.g @base would 
> break things regardless. In fact, if the @import is not dropped it might very 
> well lead to a bunch of 404s in legacy clients.
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hmm... what about introducing
http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/specs/constants/ ?

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