RE: [css3-images] Image fallback feature's dependency on media fragments

Tab Atkins:
> Presumably it should be identically usable in the other<image>-using 
> properties besides 'content', right?

Boris Zbarsky:
> There is no such thing.  All properties that do uri stuff do pretty different things,
> so they're handled on a case-by-case basis.

Concur with this one completely.  In specs it's easy to put a <token> somewhere and expect that you can evolve that <token> in a myriad of "small" ways "cheaply"; in code, those small ways tend to have an O(n^2) or O(n^3) type cost to actually implement.

Received on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:36:20 UTC