Re: Dreams aloud

Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> if 'width' is defined in the style definition it overrides previous value
> *and discards min and max values set in previous styles in the cascading
> order*
> 
> So authors if they want to use width with constraints will be forced to
> override these three all together.

   NO NO NO!!!  That would break the cascading rules, setting a value on 
one property *cannot* affect the value of another.  If your rule was 
applied, it would mean that if I specified rules like the following, 
then min/max-width will not even be applied, however current css rules 
state that they should.

div { min-width: 25%; max-width: 50%; }
div.a { width: 10em; } /* min/max-width will not apply with your rule */
div.b { width: 15em; }

> Actually the idea is deeper on second look:
> 
> width: 100px;
> width: 50% (min:20px, max:100px);

   This idea is reasonable, but the syntax is not.  I believe something 
equivelant has been discussed previously.  min() and max() functions, 
which could be introduced when a calc() function is introduced would 
provide much more flexibility.


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