CSS WG Blog Resolutions 2008-01-15

Resolutions 2008-01-15

CSS2.1

Resolved: that comma-delimited and space-delimited syntax for rect() may not be combined, see CSS2.1 Issue 28.

Media Queries

We discussed several media queries issues, including:

• syntax, where there seemed to be agreement to use CSS syntax minus escapes
  • It was pointed out that media queries even in HTML are not always used in conjunction iwth CSS or by a UA with a CSS parser.
  • It was pointed out that CSS has robust forward-compatible parsing rules that are useful to keep (e.g. matching brackets and handling quoted strings)
  • It was pointed out that the same rules will need to apply to Selectors
  • No one seemed to care whether comments were kept or not
• calc(), where there was agreement that it shouldn’t be in media queries and several ideas were floated on how to do this:
  • explicitly list which length units are allowed in media queries (awkward, hard to update)
  • exclude media queries in the clac() definition in css3-values
  • say in Media Queries that only simple lengths are allowed, not expressions
• Some other issues (but not all) are recorded on the wiki

Other Notes

• Table width algorithm added as potential topic for March F2F
• The Web Standards Project will be collecting feedback from web designers about what they want to see in CSS3.

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