RE: [css-variables] Custom properties using the 'var' prefix? (Issue 1, !important) from Sylvain Galineau on 2012-09-07 (www-style@w3.org from September 2012)

From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:20:34 +0000
To: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3C4041FF83E1E04A986B6DC50F0178291BE31A1E@TK5EX14MBXC227.redmond.corp.microsoft.>


[François REMY:]
> If you correctly remember, I was proposing the 'x' prefix beforehand but 
>Sylvain said he didn't like it, which is why I did all this research in 
>first place. If we can agree on the 'x' prefix, I would not mind at all.
> 
That someone does not like something is irrelevant; why they don't is all 
that matters. In this case, the x- prefixed was modeled after the IETF's 
X- prefix which the IETF is phasing out. I don't think we should use 
patterns others are getting rid of for good reasons, so I objected.

Received on Friday, 7 September 2012 15:21:07 UTC