- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:03:26 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Friday 2012-05-25 09:31 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > 4. Tighten the syntax of variables. This should be pretty > non-controversial, as the current definition is way to underdefined. > This is easy to do - basically it'll just be a space, comma, or > slash-separated list of "[ <number> | <dimension> | <string> | > <function> ... ]". Very permissive, but still disallows weird things > like unbalanced parens and such. The WebKit impl already uses this > slightly restricted grammar (we basically parse it as a "term+", from > the Appendix G grammar). I'm concerned about this change (and, in particular, I'm concerned about it leading to something that's engine-specific rather than implementable across engines), but I'd like to see details of what you're proposing before commenting further. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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