Re: Ordering in 'animation' shorthands

On Wednesday 2014-01-22 15:46 -0800, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Issue 3 in Animations talks about the ordering behavior of parsing the
> 'animation' shorthand.  It implies that values are parsed as the first
> type they can match, using the ordering given in the grammar.
> 
> Since the very first term in the grammar is <'animation-name'>, which
> is a <custom-ident>, this implies that the first keyword, regardless
> of what its value is, is always the animation name.
> 
> Is this the intention?  Blink doesn't currently do this (though we
> have tests that match the spec, which we're currently failing).
> Instead, we assign keywords to the other grammar terms if possible.
> If a keyword doesn't belong to any other grammar term, we assume it's
> the animation name; otherwise, we take the last keywords as the
> animation-name.

Agreed:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Apr/0344.html

-David

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