- From: Peter Beverloo <beverloo@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:12:01 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Cc: rune@opera.com
The CSS Device Adapt specification defines a parsing algorithm[1] for the meta-element viewport content, which has been based on WebKit's implementation that shipped with iOS4. This algorithm only accepts commas as separators between properties. In reality, web authors are using both commas as semi-colons. A wide range of websites, including CNN[2], Flickr[3] and Reddit[4] depend on this behavior, which has led at least Mozilla and Microsoft to implement it and, in case of the latter, write about it[5]. I think the specification should adapt to reflect what authors are doing. While it's unfortunate that the divergence between commas and semi-colons happened, it's important for compatibility among mobile browsers. Thanks, Peter [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-device-adapt/#parsing-algorithm [2] http://m.cnn.com [3] http://m.flickr.com [4] http://www.reddit.com/.compact (or http://m.reddit.com/) [5] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/iemobile/archive/2010/11/22/the-ie-mobile-viewport-on-windows-phone-7.aspx
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