Re: [css3-2d-transforms][css3-images] <position> grammar is duplicated or points to the wrong spec from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2012-02-02 (www-style@w3.org from February 2012)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 02:25:34 -0800
To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, fantasai <fantasai@inkedblade.net>
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> More to the point would be something like
>
>   calc(a + b, as percent)
>   calc(a + b, as px)
>   calc(a + b, as em) /* could make a difference when user resizes text without zooming whole page */

background-position (and other things using <position>) is the only
place where calc() has this problem.  As such, I don't think it's
really warranted to add something to calc() just for this, when we can
specify a reasonable solution already.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:26:21 UTC