Trailing semi-colons (Re: Agenda, 11 September 2014 SVG WG telcon)

• From: Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com>
• Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:18:59 +0900
• To: Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>, www-svg@w3.org, David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
• Message-ID: <5410DC63.5010703@mozilla.com>

On 2014/09/10 21:48, Erik Dahlström wrote:
> Hi David,
> do you happen to have any examples that expect a single trailing
> semicolon to mean there's an additional empty value at the end?
>
> Ideally I'd like all list-of-something to follow the same pattern of
> allowing/ignoring a trailing separator, which seems to be how most
> browsers handle such attributes, see e.g http://jsfiddle.net/u6s671gb/4/.

This has been discussed before:

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2011Nov/0136.html

There is a more thorough test case here:

   http://brian.sol1.net/svg/interop/semicolon-test.svg

It seems Chrome is inconsistent in where it allows trailing semi-colons 
and where it does not.

I'd rather we just resolve this on the list if possible.

Thanks,

Brian

Received on Wednesday, 10 September 2014 23:19:28 UTC