- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:45:12 -0700
- To: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Cc: WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>, "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net> wrote: > On 21/05/2012 22:17, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Bert Bos<bert@w3.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Sunday 06 May 2012 23:17:39 fantasai wrote: >>> >>>> - RESOLVED: include sign in NUMBER, PERCENTAGE, DIMENSION tokens >>>> in 2.1 >>> >>> >>> I think there is an error in the minutes here (And I know I was taking >>> minutes at that time: Sorry for confusing tokens and types. :-( ) >>> >>> The issue was about whether comments and spaces are allowed after the >>> sign in property values that are defined as<number>,<length> or >>> <percentage> > > >>> So the actual edit to CSS 2.1 is easy, I think: just add that word >>> "immediately" that css3-values already has. It goes into section 4.3.1. >>> >>> I'm not sure if this counts as a change or a clarification. For now, >>> I've marked it as a change in the errata[1]. >>> >>> [1] http://www.w3.org/Style/css2-updates/REC-CSS2-20110607- >>> errata.html#s.4.3.1 >> >> >> No, that is not what the issue was about. The resolution as recorded >> in the minutes is correct. We want to change the definition of the >> NUMBER, PERCENTAGE, and DIMENSION tokens so that they include the sign >> in their production. > > > Bert, Tab: this issue is filed at > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17509 > > It seems that we still need to agree upon a proposal, and that this issue > should not yet be contained in the errata document. The proposal is to alter the "num" production to: num ['+'|'-']?([0-9]+|[0-9]*\.[0-9]+) I don't think any text needs to be altered in CSS2.1, at least not Chapter 4, as it doesn't explicitly talk about DELIM tokens, but rather just optional signs. ~TJ
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