- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:07:40 -0800
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- CC: Andrey Mikhalev <amikhal@abisoft.spb.ru>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
Aryeh Gregor wrote: > 2009/2/25 Andrey Mikhalev <amikhal@abisoft.spb.ru>: >> how about these reasons: >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-id >> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#id >> >> if good enough, you have to use css escapes or fix html5 spec ;) > > I don't understand the relevance. CSS should support HTML5 as well as > HTML4 and XML. Clearly #123456 wouldn't match anything in a > conformant HTML4 or XML document, but it might match something in a > conformant HTML5 document, so why require the extra trouble of > escaping the first character for HTML5 authors? Let me answer that question with another question. How many out of how many browsers fail this test? http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS2.1/current/html4/ident-008.htm Mozilla, Opera, and Safari have all converged on passing this test. Does it really make sense to change that now? ~fantasai
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