Re: [css-variables] ...let's change the syntax

• From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:50:00 -0700
• To: Chris Eppstein <chris@eppsteins.net>
• Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CAAWBYDBntJGN1tPEiJhZwT_uxkMmHsFijCW4uMx9DdfrdD86Vw@mail.gmail.com>

Forgot to respond to this line:

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Chris Eppstein <chris@eppsteins.net> wrote:
> An issue we're bumping into in the sass community now is namespace collisions from 3rd-party libraries. It would be nice if CSS could avoid our mistake by forcing a namespace for custom properties.

That's why I'd prefer "underscore anywhere in the name" over "leading
underscore" - you can put the namespace before the underscore, leading
to a nice visual separation.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 13 March 2014 17:50:47 UTC