Re: [css-variables] serializing cascading variable names from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2013-02-27 (www-style@w3.org from February 2013)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:48:16 -0800
To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCVngAht-X98f8w+JTgAfEex-5EskNqW_XOjOvn1_Awww@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:16 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:
> The CSS Variables spec has a one-line section noting [*]:
>
>> Custom property names must be serialized exactly as provided by the author.
>
> I don't think this is quite right.  They should be serialized as
> identifiers are serialized which may or may not be "exactly as
> provided by the author".  Escape sequences may be trimmed out for
> example if not needed.

Good point.  I've changed it to "Custom property names must be
serialized with the casing as provided by the author.", with a note
explaining the purpose of the line.  Does that work?

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 17:49:02 UTC