RE: Issue in CSS21 grammar? from Sylvain Galineau on 2009-02-26 (www-style@w3.org from February 2009)

From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:53:11 -0800
To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <5D97C7EB4695104AB6345E56FE356B193F134B7663@NA-EXMSG-C125.redmond.corp.microsoft>

Fantasai wrote:

> 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

Fwiw, IE8 passes this as well. At this stage, CSS2.1 updates should fix errors in the spec not minor syntactic usability issues imo. It's not that you can't select those elements, it's just that it requires a leading escape.

Received on Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:54:00 UTC