- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:59:55 -0500
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Cc: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk<news@terrainformatica.com> wrote: > Say you have set of existing styles that you carefully crafted in years. And > now you've got UA that started to support, say, background-size. > It is just enough for someone or even for you to change background-size in > default style and you will need to update bunch of other rules to suppress > it. > Having function that allow you to define the set as a whole plus existing > mechanism allowing to redefine particular attribute will give you more > choices > of making better and stable designs. You do know that all shorthand properties reset unspecified properties to their default value, right? A new type of background property that gets added to the shorthand won't have any effect on your older code. ~TJ
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