- From: Nick Bishop <nick4soup@yahoo.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:46:49 +1000 (EST)
- To: www-validator-css@w3.org
I believe I have found a problem with the CSS
validator at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ which
I believe is related to the problem discussed in a
message dated Tue, 05 Nov 2002 03:32:51 +0100 with
Message-ID:
<3de02d3b.90469037@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>
The problem is when I submit this CSS ...
a:visited.external { color: purple; }
a:link.external { color: green; }
the validator does not complain. Like the other
message, I find that the pretty-printer silently
rearranges it to
a.external:visited { color: purple; }
a.external:link { color: green; }
The impact that it has is that the first version above
will not work in Netscape 4.51 (and most probably
others).
It is not desirable, because web authors will submit a
CSS file for validation, see that no complaints are
produced, pay no attention to the pretty printing, and
assume that means they can deploy their CSS file.
I confess that I haven't read the specs, but I can
confirm the second version above works with Netscape
4.51
Nick Bishop.
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