- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:13:20 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
- Cc: WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
Tab Atkins wrote: > > Given this, I'm leaning towards Richard Ishida's (?) suggestion > > that we leave user-defined idents as case-sensitive and just > > grandfather in any CSS-defined keywords as computing to their > > lowercase variants. > > How does this work with custom property names? Do we require that > their prefix be literally "var-", so "VAR-FOO" is an invalid > property and thrown away at parse time? The same way counter(FOO) vs. COUNTER(FOO) is handled today. The 'counter' portion is a CSS keyword and the FOO part is a user-defined ident. Same for the variable syntax, 'var-' is a keyword and follows the rules for matching keywords, while 'FOO' is a user-defined ident that follows the rules for user defined idents. The fact that authors may not see 'var-foo' as one part keyword, one part user-defined ident is one of the weaknesses of the 'var-' syntax that we've just decided to accept. But if someone is clever enough to use variables in their CSS, they can figure out casing rules I'm assuming. Cheers, John
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