Re: [css3-animations] Times are listed as unitless

On 5/1/11 5:04 PM, Eric A. Meyer wrote:
> Well, don't leave us hanging-- where, exactly? I searched my mail
> archives but only came up with mentions of a resolution but no
> explanation of the reasoning behind the resolution.

See thread starting 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Nov/0043.html for 
example (referenced pretty recently too) has reasoning.

> Which I'd really like to see, because if we're going to violate long-standing author
> expectations around '0'

Where are these expectations coming from? 
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/syndata.html#q20 (CSS 2.0, 
back in 1998) says that times can't be unitless.  Compare it to 
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/syndata.html#length-units 
which says that 0 lengths can be unitless.

Or is the expectation coming from the fact that most web authors never 
used any times, only lengths, which don't have the same syntax, and now 
they're starting to use times and being confused?

-Boris

Received on Sunday, 1 May 2011 21:21:40 UTC