CSS WG Blog Resolutions 2007-12-11

Resolutions 2007-12-11

CSS2.1 Issues

Discussed CSS2.1 Issue 19 (case-sensitivity in CSS) and resolved to adopt the proposed changes on January 8th unless there are objections.

CSSOM Views

Anne van Kesteren is preparing the CSSOM View specification for publication as a First Public Working Draft.

Media Queries Syntax and Parsing

Spent a lot of time discussing the issues Anne van Kesteren and
Henri Sivonen have brought up recently. CSS parsing involves a
lot of things that we’re not sure should be part of media queries
as used in other languages (e.g. in HTML’s media="...".

Issues include:

• Differing interpretations of “white space”
• CSS comments: are they allowed in media queries outside CSS?
• CSS backslash escapes: are they allowed in media queries outside CSS?
• Should parsing media queries outside CSS match parentheses and quotes when parsing invalid queries?
• Should parsing media queries outside CSS append closing parentheses and quotes when parsing incomplete media queries?

Anne has started a discussion on www-style to come up with proposed text, so reply to his messages if you’ve got comments!

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