- From: Rijk van Geijtenbeek <rijk@iname.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:10:33 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Hello Christopher,
On Friday, November 1, 2002 you wrote:
>>> Instead of: P {margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-indent:
>>> 1em;} Condense to: P {margin-left, margin-right, text-indent:
>>> 1em;}
..
> This would allow related measurements to be grouped together so that the
> value could be modified in a text editor once, and all of the associated
> properties would update correspondingly. The author would not need to
> scan through the style sheet and update every single reference. In my
> opinion, this would slightly simplify adjustment of values.
I don't follow that. If the values are now set in various parts of a
style sheet, they don't share the same selector. This suggestion only
saves a little work when the properties are already conveniently close
together.
Greetings,
Rijk mailto:rijk@iname.com
Mot du Jour:
A camel is a horse planned by committee.
Received on Friday, 1 November 2002 03:06:39 UTC