4346 2007-02-23 04:18:01 +0000 Update user's manual - we use css 2.1 by default 2014-12-17 01:33:31 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSSValidator Parser CSS Validator Other Windows 3.1 NEW http://setonparish.net/ P1 major --- 1 webmaster dave.null dghrjyan fantasai.bugs jukka.k.korpela mike Nasserbufahad ronnin67 vincent1984 www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 14063 0 webmaster 2007-02-23 04:18:01 +0000 User's manual states that, by default, the W3C online validator will check for compliance against CSS2, the current recommendation. However, it appears that the validator is actually parsing documents using CSS2.1 rules. I was getting unexplainable errors when validating my style sheet, which uses the @font-face at-rule. After digging deep into the specification and a lot of head banging, I finally figured out the problem once I realized I could tell the validator what specification to use. My style sheet validates against CSS2, but it looks like the @font-face at-rule has been removed in CSS2.1. This is the first time I had ever made use of this rule and ended up wasting a ton of time chasing ghosts. 14066 1 ot 2007-02-23 12:59:05 +0000 The bug is rather in the manual which should be updated. We used CSS 2.1 as default at this point. 14537 2 webmaster 2007-03-26 01:28:30 +0000 Why would you use CSS 2.1 as the default at this point? At this point 2.0 is the current recommendation? 14538 3 ot 2007-03-26 01:41:25 +0000 (In reply to comment #2) > Why would you use CSS 2.1 as the default at this point? At this point 2.0 is > the current recommendation? CSS 2.1 is generally considered as an errata to CSS2, and in particular, is closer to actual implementations than CSS 2. 16314 4 fantasai.bugs 2007-08-28 21:06:36 +0000 Actually, the CSS validator should be checking against all CR+ level CSS specs by default. 73688 5 jukka.k.korpela 2012-09-12 07:57:35 +0000 The documentation bug still exists, over 5 years after it was reported here, and now it is a double bug: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/manual.html says that for the profile parameter, the default value is "the most recent W3C Recommendation: CSS 2". CSS 2.1 is now the most recent recommendation (regarding CSS as a whole), whereas the default value is now CSS3, though there is no public documentation on what this means. My guess is that the intent is that here "CSS3", or "CSS Level 3" as it is called in the UI, is CSS 2.1 plus CSS 3 specifications that have CR or REC status.