- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 11:52:23 +0200
- To: "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu> wrote: > (12/05/12 5:45), L. David Baron wrote: >> On Thursday 2012-05-10 11:37 +0200, L. David Baron wrote: >>> I think if we want to change this, we should just change the >>> dimension token throughout CSS (rather than making the tokenizer >>> context-sensitive, which is a huge pain), so that - is not allowed >>> in the unit part of a dimension. >> >> Actually, when I mentioned this to Bert at dinner, he pointed out >> that this won't be sufficient if we want to allow identifiers in >> calc() in the future. For example, I think we're likely to want to >> put auto or min-content inside calc() in the future. > > Why? Unless we want '2min-content', it seems irrelevant. 'min-content' > isn't a DIMENSION. Am I missing something? Yes, min-content isn't a DIMENSION. It's an IDENT, which we're not changing the grammar of, so "calc(min-content-2em)" looks like a single ident, as does "calc(auto-min-content)". ~TJ
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