Re: [CSSWG] Minutes and Resolutions 2010-02-17

On Feb 24, 2010, at 3:29 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>  
wrote:

>
>>>  szilles: Is there an example elsewhere of a slash without something
>>>           before it?
>>
>
> The border-image syntax is different in two ways from the background  
> shorthand.
>
> 1. The order of the elements separated by the slash is fixed.

OK, and the order of bg-position, the slash, and bg-size should also  
be fixed, the way I was imagining it working.

> 2. You cannot drop elements leading into the slash or trailing from  
> it: it is
>   always separating two parts of a fixed sequence.

True, but I don't see why that's a problem. It is still  an example of  
a slash without something [other than another slash and content on the  
other side of THAT slash] before it.

As I see it working for background, it would be  separating two parts  
of a fixed-order sequence, in which you could still drop other parts  
in, as long as size could only be included if it was somewhere to the  
right of a slash.