- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:41:52 -0500
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Daniel Glazman wrote: > Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > >> I'd prefer to throw away invalid declarations at parse time, and not >> have to keep them around. Therefore, I suggest that we add text >> similar to the @namespace specification: >> The namespace prefix is declared only within the style sheet in >> which its @namespace rule appears. It is not declared in any style >> sheets importing or imported by that style sheet, nor in any other >> style sheets applying to the document. > > I see your point but I strongly disagree. The main purpose of CSS > Variables for a corporation is unicity of design for all corporate > web sites. That means having a single corporateVars.css somewhere that > all other stylesheets can import... If you break at @import > boundaries, > the whole thing loses most of its interest. I agree. I think the model of just allowing variables to be defined at the document-level is simple and intuitive. It allows for centralized variable definition and reuse. dave
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