Re: [Css Variables] Variable Declaration Blocks

On Tuesday 2008-09-30 09:33 +0200, Mike Wilson wrote:
> I was reading the meeting notes again 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0075.html
> and it seems this part was central to changing into the parse-
> time route:
> 
>   David: The current CSSOM only supports one value per property
>          per declaration
>   David: You can't do that and get the cascading order right
>   David: And change the variables after the fact
>   Daniel: Then these need to be constants
> 
> The notes are a bit brief so I don't follow this all the way. 
> It would be great if you could expand a little on why having 
> changeable variables breaks the cascading order?

I expanded on it a bit in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Aug/0169.html
which I posted almost immediately after the discussion at the
meeting.

-David

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