Re: [css-syntax][css-fonts] Wrapping up the <unicode-range> thing

On 06/28/2015 04:21 PM, Simon Sapin wrote:
> On 27/06/15 10:47, fantasai wrote:
>> I'd argue that we may want to
>> allow implementations to use context-specific parsing rules as
>> well, if they want to go that route instead, so the UA would be
>> allowed to either accept or reject u+a/**/rea. (A full CSS parser
>> might not want to do that, but a Selectors parser shouldn't have
>> to deal with unicode-range token munging. Ditto An+B, now I think
>> about it.)
>
> Allowing a different behavior without mandating it reduces interop,
> and this doesn’t seem to be a good enough reason to do it.

The cases where there wouldn't be interop are just weird edge cases
like u+a/**/rea, right? I don't think interop on that case is worth
imposing the complexity of a CSS-token-munging parsing model on all
non-CSS implementations of Selectors.

~fantasai

Received on Sunday, 28 June 2015 22:07:34 UTC