- From: Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:02:32 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org
On Thu, 27 May 2010 04:57:12 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 5/26/10 9:31 PM, Michael Day wrote: >>> [1] >>> http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/publish/types.html#DataTypeLength >> >> In this spec length is defined like this in style sheets: >> >> length ::= number (~"em" | ~"ex" | ~"px" | ~"in" | ~"cm" | ~"mm" | ~"pt" >> | ~"pc")? >> >> What are the ~ characters for, and why is the unit still optional? The tilde means case-insensitive matching of the string that follows. Cheers /Erik -- Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed
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