- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:35:06 -0700
- To: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com> wrote: > http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/csswg/css3-background/Overview.src.html.diff?r1=1.233&r2=1.234&f=h > > Can someone elaborate on the intent of this change? Presumably to make it clearer that they mean "non-zero". There's sufficient possibility for confusion over whether 0 qualifies as a "positive" number that it's often worthwhile to avoid using the term "positive" when you mean to exclude zero. The possibility of negative distances is already ruled out earlier in the prose describing the possible values, so it's unambiguous. ~TJ
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