- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:36:34 -0700
- To: Peter Beverloo <beverloo@google.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, rune@opera.com
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Peter Beverloo <beverloo@google.com> wrote: > 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 Agreed that we should match current behavior, whatever it is. Hopefully by getting a single correct description of the necessary parsing algorithm we can get proper interop between everyone that prevents it from drifting further. ~TJ
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