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W3C and the CSS Working Group publish information about the specifications under development in various ways. This page is the working group's weblog (blog). Other places to find information are the “current work” page, the www-style mailing list.

CSS Snapshot 2007 and CSS Namespaces

The W3C published a Last Call Working Draft of the CSS Snapshot 2007. If you are following the development of CSS and you haven't read it yet, I recommend doing so. Its goal is to put the various specs in context and create a coherent picture of the current state of CSS. The deadline for comments is June 9th.

The W3C has also published a Candidate Recommendation of the CSS Namespaces module. This module has been implemented for years based on a 1999 draft spec, so the module is just starting to catch up with the times. The two major changes that implementors should be aware of are: prefixes are explicitly case-sensitive, in line with our resolution of CSS2.1's case-sensitivity issue; and handling of empty-string namespaces has been clarified.

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