- From: Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:56:11 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, "daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:47:00 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com> > wrote: >> This logic is sound, but at the same time, I am a bit worried about >> serialization converting one alias to the other, and getting the same >> kind >> of complaint we get about red turning into rgb(255,0,0). > > Ah, whoops, forgot about that detail. I'm not planning on making them > compute to each other; there's really no reason to. That's a bit better, but at then you get two values that are distinct from each-other, and checking for equality gives false, even though they do exactly the same thing. Not ideal either. All in all, I am not violently opposed to aliases, but they do make me feel a bit uncomfortable. Is there precedent for that? - Florian
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