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

On Thursday 2014-03-13 15:19 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:45 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 2014-03-13 18:20 +0100, François REMY wrote:
> >> That being said, Custom Properties are only useful once all browsers
> >> support them (or at least a majority of them that's sufficiently
> >> broad the justify the use of a polyfill for the others), so I'm not
> >> enclined to consider this a huge deal. I prefer we trade a bit of
> >> time for a better design than the opposite.
> >
> > But we've already done that a bunch of times at various stages in
> > the process for getting to where we are.  When do we stop?
> 
> I talked to heycam before proposing this, and set up an explicit
> deadline, along with the expectation that the current state of affairs
> is totally fine to keep if we don't decide on anything else.
> 
> Heycam said that a change like this would be trivial to make, and
> wouldn't slow down your shipping, since you're currently blocked on
> another bug anyway.  Whichever way this gets resolved on the call next
> Wed, heycam'll make the change (or not), and then flip the "shipping"
> flag immediately after.
> 
> I'm being responsible with the change here - no need to stress.

Sounds good.  I was responding to the part of the thread
contemplating much larger changes.

-David

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