Re: [css3-transforms] Making transform-origin a list, converting transform to comma separated

On 05/02/2012, at 10:11 AM, Dean Jackson wrote:

> I don't really want to argue this any more. I (hope I) understand your point and I agree that it is valid. I'm still on the side of space-separation but I'm ok if the WG goes the other way.

And immediately after saying that, I thought of something :)

Adding commas into transforms will make it very hard if any future property accepts a list of transforms. This relates to my point that transform *looks* like a list but is really just an alternate method for describing a *single* value.

For example, one could imagine a background-transform property that applies a transform to background values. We'd have to add more syntax to support this.

(Note: I kind-of think background transform is a nice idea! :)

> But if so, then it needs to remain consistent with SVG, so I would definitely want to see the SVG Recommendation updated at the same time (of course that will be bad because it will break all SVG content that uses transforms).

I think this is an important factor. We're already slightly inconsistent with SVG - I wouldn't want to make it worse.

Dean

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> This reminds me that public-fx is probably the place at which this discussion should take place. The transforms specification is now a jointly owned work between SVG and CSS.
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