- From: Paul Duffin <pduffin@volantis.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:18:18 -0600 (MDT)
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- > > From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On > > Behalf Of Paul Duffin > > > > I don't dispute the initial motivation for adding it but it seems to > > me > > that the language used in the specification indicates that > > considerable > > thought went into making it suitable for use as a general mechanism > > for > > namespacing CSS identifiers in general. > > Considerable thought ? Because it lets you infer a usage pattern one > of > the original editors is explicitly disagreeing with ? > Because it clearly is intended to be more general than the original document and I am crediting the authors/reviewers and all those with making considered decisions to write the specification as they had over the 9 years since it was originally proposed. As far as I can tell none of the authors of the *current specification* have commented on this. I don't know what input Peter had on that and am not criticizing him personally but I do know how ideas evolve and change so what he may have intended when he wrote it is not necessarily what the current authors intend. I also know that it is very difficult (impossible?) to write technical specifications / documents that have no holes, gaps or ambiguities so it is possible that I am reading too much into it. > > Personally, I find the namespaces specification well written and its > > intent and purpose very clear. > > If it can interpreted to mean something its authors believe it did not > intend > then its purpose may not be so clear and thus its writing would be > deficient > in this respect. > > I strongly agree that is we did need to add namespaces *to* CSS it > should use > a different syntax than that used *by* CSS to referenced namespaces in > documents. Lets assume for arguments sake that we did need to add namespaces to CSS. What syntax would you use?
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