Re: possible bug or misunderstanding

2012-03-15 15:00, ronald b. kopelman wrote:

> I received the following errors
>
> 17	.main	Property -moz-border-radius doesn't exist : 25px
> 20	.main	Parse Error opacity=75)

They inform about constructs that are not defined in CSS3.

> 	-moz-border-radius: 25px; /*Firefox 3.6 and earlier*/

To turn information about this construct from error to warning, select 
"Vendor Extensions: Warnings" in CSS Validator's extended interface (the 
same where you can select CSS2). This does not make it any less 
nonstandard; the only reason for this setting is that it may help people 
to distinguish between serious errors and use of extensions.

> 	filter: alpha(opacity=75); /*For IE8 and earlier*/

This vendor extension is of such a type that it cannot be silenced - it 
does not use a vendor prefix. Basically the validator does not check the 
construct at all; you would need to check from vendor documentation that 
your use corresponds to the rules set by the vendor, so that it has the 
intended browser-specific effect.

> But, these lines are suggested in the w3 tutorials.
> See, for example, http://www.w3schools.com/css3/css3_borders.asp

The w3schools site is in no way related to the W3C, and it is generally 
unreliable (see http://w3fools.com). In this particular issue, the 
advice is not wrong as such, but the constructs are still not CSS3.

Yucca