- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:12:04 +1000
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style@w3.org, Vitor Menezes <vmenezes@mozilla.com>
On 10/08/2011 12:29 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Alan Gresley<alan@css-class.com> wrote:
>> I never liked this form of nesting. It does not occur in CSS3 mediaqueries
>> nor any other syntax that has statements with blocks. I believe that several
>> arguments appearing between blocks are better separated by commas or
>> keywords, like shown below for the ease of commenting parts out but more so
>> to hunt down parsing errors.
>>
>> @supports not (display:block and display:inline)
>>
>> @supports not (display:block , display:inline)
>
> Neither of these work, as the property values may include commas or
> the keyword "and".
Can you please give me examples of these?
Off the top of my head, I can think of comma separated values for the
properties 'background' and 'box-shadow'. Apart from mediaqueries, where
is the keyword 'and' used?
> You absolutely must enclose the declarations in
> parens (or some other delimiter that cannot be mistaken for part of a
> value).
>
> ~TJ
OK, another possible delimiter.
@supports (display:block) and ([display:inline])
@supports not ([display:block] and [display:inline])
@supports ([display:block])
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Alan Gresley
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