- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:22:36 -0700
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: > On 13/03/2014 04:38, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> I've been thinking. >> >> At the last f2f, I proposed custom MQs and pseudo-classes. To >> distinguish them from CSS-defined ones, I mandated that they had to >> start with (or perhaps just contain) an underscore character, because >> this is a valid character that CSS is nevertheless never going to use >> in language-defined names. >> >> This, while a little ugly, seems to do the job pretty well. > > > Yeah, and I was opposed to your underscore proposal because of that. > I really found the "underscore anywhere" proposal totally opposed to > anything we've done in the past in CSS but since there was a rather > large consensus, I accepted it. > > If I understand correctly, we're only days from a shipping > implementation. We've kept the variables topic on the radar for 14 > years and I am not comfortable with changing things at the last minute; > it's highly time to deliver. Any syntactic change we make must be done > quietly these days, because we have so much more on the radar than 6 > years ago; any change has many impacts. > > "--" looks ok but raised some concerns. > "_" is ugly, and not "a little" bit, but we resolved on it :-/ We didn't actually resolve on anything. We accepted me pursing my drafts, with provisional acceptance of what's in them. They're early enough that I don't think there's even an implicit acceptance of the current syntax *itself*; we've only been really accepting that the idea is worthwhile, and the current syntax is at least vaguely acceptable. > To be honest, I don't think that's what framework authors or even web > site designers were looking for. They were looking for -jquery-foo and > -mywebsite-foo because prefixes are already well known. They don't > care and don't want to care about our syntactic rules about idents > starting with a hyphen or not. This has always had my preference; users > first. --jquery-foo, --mywebsite-foo. Looks fine to me. ~TJ
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