- From: Kravvitz <Kravvitz@DynamicSiteSolutions.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:33:16 -0400
- To: www-validator-css@w3.org
- CC: Sebastian Mares <sebastianmares@web.de>
Currently, CSS2.1 is only a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Its status has not yet been changed to full Recommendation. The CSS Validator validates according to CSS2, not CSS2.1. I too find it annoying. It would be nice to know why the powers that be are dragging their feet. Sebastian Mares wrote: > Well, according to section "4.1.2 Keywords" of the CSS 2.1 > Specification, vendor-specific extensions are perfectly legal. > > "In CSS2.1, identifiers may begin with '-' (dash) or '_' (underscore). > Keywords and property names, beginning with -' or '_' are reserved for > vendor-specific extensions." > > Therefore, although they should be avoided, browser specific > attributes are allowed and should not be marked as illegal. Moreover, > even if they are illegal, this should apply to the respective rule and > should not affect the following attributes.
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