- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:49:42 +0900
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "Ojan Vafai" <ojan@chromium.org>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:22:55 +0900, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org> wrote: > What are cases where it can be converted? E.g. a value is given in 'px' but you want to know how much 'em' that is for the current element. > Are you thinking something like > converting em to px? I don't think we should transparently do conversions > like this. It would make sense if you had something like > element.computedStyle.margin.l[0].px, but for declared styles it seems > like we should throw. If we do decide to convert, there should at least > be a > simple way to check if the value is set in px, em, whatever without > resorting to string parsing. That would be the type attribute on CSSValue. For <length> it would have constants like LENGTH_PX. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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