- From: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:47:49 +0000
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "Anne van Kesteren (annevk@opera.com)" <annevk@opera.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
*almost* "never paid attention" There was directed effort in document mode 9 in IE9 (and IE10) to pay some heed to this rule. > -----Original Message----- > From: Sylvain Galineau > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 9:08 AM > To: Brian Manthos; Anne van Kesteren (annevk@opera.com); www- > style@w3.org > Subject: RE: [CSSOM] some feedback on serialization > > > [Brian Manthos:] > > 6.6.2 > > # Where multiple CSS component values can appear in any order # > without > > changing the meaning of the value (typically represented # by a > double bar > > || in the value syntax), use the order as given in # the syntax. > > > > Many (all?) CSS3 modules appear to be paying no attention to this > > expectation at all. > > This one is controversial since no editor writes the syntax definition > as a serialization > format. Given the alternative between using this and defining what the > serialization format > is for every single CSS property, however, I understand why Anne would > prefer the former :) > But since browsers never paid attention to syntax definitions to define > their serialization, > and since syntax definitions were never written with serialization in > mind (afaik) it's no > surprise neither other modules or implementations are up to this. I > think of this clause as a > placeholder, really.
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