Ho Roedy, I think that you may wish to send this to www-style@w3.org. Thanks! _ Ian On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 04:24 -0700, Roedy Green wrote: > This is not a site comment per se, but I could not find where I where > I was supposed to send items for the "wishlist". Perhaps you could > pass it on to the proper party. > > > The big thing CSS is missing is named constants. You will find > yourself mentioning the same colour or group of fonts, or font size > over and over. You must make bulk search/replace changes. The problem > is when two things temporarily, incidentally have the same colour, you > cant change just some of them without manually examining each instance > carefully. The problem is analogous to using literals in Java programs > instead of named constants. > > If you could simply assign a name to a colour, font family group, > font size etc, then you could make a change in only one place and have > it ripple though the entire style sheet. > > Until CSS develops this ability, or something equivalent, you might > fudge it with a primitive macro preprocessor for CSS. However, such a > scheme would have all the drawbacks any language preprocessor has. You > would not be able to validate or edit the text with TopStyle, for > example. > > > > Roedy Green > Canadian Mind Products > #101 - 2536 Wark Street > Victoria, BC CANADA V8T 4G8 > (250) 361-9093 > roedy@telus.net > http://mindprod.com > -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260-9447Received on Thursday, 26 June 2008 16:34:04 GMT
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