- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:55:06 -0800
- To: Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu> wrote: > In the fragment > > symbols: \3B1 \3B2; > > the descriptor value is a single identifier token containing two characters > \3B1 and \3B2: the space is part of the escape (to allow the next character to > be in [0-9a-fA-F] without needing to be escaped). > > Another problem introduced when dropping quotes is an example that had ASCII > '*' as one of its symbols; without the quotes, it's not an identifier, so is > syntactically invalid and would get dropped. > > (Revision 6660 of css-counter-styles was one change that fused identifiers, > I don't know if there were others.) > > Both of these are gotchas for authors as well as for spec writers; so consider > adding a note warning of at least the first problem and perhaps the second too, > for ASCII symbols like + - * # $ > . (Most authors don't read specs, but we > can try.) Fixed the errors, and added a note. Thanks! ~TJ
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