Re: @import -- allow at any place in stylesheet.

• From: Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
• Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:12:16 +0400
• To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
• Cc: www-style@w3.org
• Message-Id: <218421326798736@web94.yandex.ru>

17.01.2012, 12:18, "David Woolley" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>:
> Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com wrote:
>
>>  Hello. It makes sense to allow @import at any place in CSS stylesheet.
>
> Regardless of any reasons for the original decision, this sort of change
> is extremely likely to produce style sheets that do not degrade
> gracefully on older browsers (some of which may be fixed in silicon), so
> it would not be safe to use on the public internet for about a decade
> after introduction.
>
> --
> David Woolley
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This is obvious, and such comments are completely useless here. Any new feature is not supported in currect implementations, but this is not a reason to stop spec development. We are developing future. The sooner feature will be introduced into spec, the sooner it will be possible to use it.

Received on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:13:14 UTC