On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:42:33 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > I noted in a recent thread that the allowed name syntax for > @counter-style rules was a mistake - allowing them to fill the same > namespace as normal keywords meant I have to keep an (updated) list of > disallowed keywords, and do some funky things in the spec to handle > collisions with existing names. If I'd written the spec today, I'd > have required that the name be a <custom-ident> and start with --, so > it's easily distinguishable from anything else. > > Currently, only Firefox implements @counter-style, but it's been > implemented since v33 afaict. Does anyone (Xidorn?) know the usage > here, and is able to comment on whether such a change would be > feasible? > > Alternately, would the group be okay with changing the syntax to > <custom-ident>, even if Firefox has to, for legacy reasons, support > the wider syntax for some period of time (possibly indefinitely)? Searching on github... "counter-style"; only 322 code results https://github.com/search?l=css&q="counter-style"&type=Code&utf8=✓ Compare with: "counter-reset"; 123,608 code results https://github.com/search?l=css&q="counter-reset"&ref=searchresults&type=Code&utf8=✓ http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-counters "mix-blend-mode"; 53,950 code results https://github.com/search?utf8=✓&q="mix-blend-mode"&type=Code&ref=searchresults http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-mixblendmode "viewport width device-width"; > 1,015,420 code results (search took too long to finish) https://github.com/search?utf8=✓&q="viewport+width+device-width"&type=Code&ref=searchresults http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-deviceadaptation "text-side-adjust"; 64,988 code results https://github.com/search?l=css&q="text-size-adjust"&ref=searchresults&type=Code&utf8=✓ http://caniuse.com/#feat=text-size-adjust -- Simon Pieters Opera SoftwareReceived on Tuesday, 8 March 2016 18:32:22 UTC
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