On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#the-css.escape%28%29-method which allows web > pages to create a valid CSS identifier that will parse to a given string. A > typical use case is: > > document.querySelector('#' + CSS.escape(stringIDontControl)) > > Unless there are objections, I'm going to check this in without a > preference, for Firefox 31. The spec for this is very straightforward and > not likely to change, apart from the feature disappearing altogether or > something. But I think this feature is pretty much necessary in some form, > whether built into the platform or as a library, to safely use > querySelector-like APIs with non-literal strings. > > Bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=955860 > > Please let me know if there are objections.
Seems fine, specification should probably clarify surrogate handling. I would expect a paired surrogate in JavaScript to end up as a single escape. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
