[*][editorial] Unquote delimiters in value definitions - #11807
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CSS Values 4 requires to write / , : ; ( ) { } literally in value definitions.
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It is no longer needed since w3c/csswg-drafts#11807.
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This PR removes the quotes around
:/)in value definitions.Since eab6ac4, the related text of CSS V&U is:
In this paragraph, whether they can be or they must be written literally is ambiguous.
None are tokenized as
<delim-token>but as their own token, except/. They are delimiters, I think, and I guess these tokens only exist for convenience. But a "dumb" CSS value definition parser may interpret')'as a<delim-token>whose value is), whereas such token cannot exist.This change would also be appreciated to have simpler implementation of such parsers. MediaQueries and Selectors both define a "general" functional notation: the former with
), the second with')'.