Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
CSS 2.1 Closer To Full Recommendation Status
The W3C’s announcement that CSS2.1 has moved to ‘Candidate Recommendation’ status has been met with a muted response from the community - presumably because most people think they’re using it already.
As it’s inching closer to becoming a full recommendation, there are no new features introduced; a few, however, are in danger of being dropped when the CR process is over as they aren’t in common use. These include:
- ‘armenian’, ‘georgian’ and ‘lower-greek’ values for the ‘list-style-type’ property;
- support for multiple id attributes; and
- the ‘quotes’ property
I’ve never used any of those features, and never seen the need for multiple id attributes, so from my point of view none of them will be a loss.
As the majority of CSS 2.1 rules have been in common use for a long time, I’d hope that this becomes a full recommendation as soon as possible, and that we can look forward to seeing CSS 3 become the sole focus of attention.