[css3-fonts] unquoted names in local() (was: Re: [css3-fonts] Minor Comments IV)

• From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
• Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 03:29:49 -0700 (PDT)
• To: www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <1186844856.16390929.1369045789560.JavaMail.root@mozilla.com>

fantasai wrote:

> Also, question: is it treated as a string between the parens (very
> unusual for CSS) or is it treated as a real functional notation
> (whitespace is trimmed)? I think it should be the latter, and that
> the argument should be parsed and handled exactly like a family name
> in font-family (minus the reserved keyword concerns). I think that
> would be less confusing. In which case, the wording describing the
> syntax here should appropriately mirror that of font-family.)

I agree, the name argument of the local() function should follow the
rules used for font-family rules, either a string or an unquoted
sequence of ident's with whitespace collapsed.

Regards,

John Daggett

Received on Monday, 20 May 2013 10:30:16 UTC