- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:33:47 +0200
- To: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
* Brian Kardell wrote: >On Apr 13, 2013 8:08 PM, "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: >> The `var-` prefix exists only because a namespacing mechanism is needed >> to avoid clashes between pre-defined and author-defined properties. The >> `set-` prefix conveys that even less than `var-`. We call `color: blue` >> a declaration, but `set` does not "declare", it "sets"; obviously there >> would be a reason why the designers of this syntax chose "set" as name, >> rather than something with more declarative semantics, so custom proper- >> ties work differently than normal properties. Obviously `get` would get >> the value associated with the name when it was last `set`, and "when" is >> temporal, so in order to understand what value `get` retrieves, I have >> to understand the execution order of the `set` instructions... >As opposed to understanding the that var- sets and var() gets with the >exact same need to understand everything else you just described, which is >all normal css? If you think that `color: blue` modifies the `color` variable so that it has the value `blue` rather than whatever value it may have had, and the previous value of the variable is lost in the process, then sure, that's just "normal css". That is not how I think about it though. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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