- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 16:04:31 +0200
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>, www-style@w3.org
Hello Simon,
Wednesday, July 1, 2015, 2:41:56 PM, you wrote:
> On 01/07/15 11:11, Sebastian Zartner wrote:
>> The @page rule defines several descriptors ('size', 'marks', 'bleed',
>> maybe others I missed), which are called 'property' throughout the text.
>> These should be renamed to 'descriptor' for clarification and consistency.
> This has been discussed before:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0387.html
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0498.html
> Unfortunately it seems that conversation died out without reaching a
> conclusion.
> I argued these are, in fact, properties. They just happen to only apply
> to pages, not elements, just like 'table-layout' only applies to table
> elements.
And pages, like fonts, do not correspond to a DOM node. So it seems
descriptors (like font descriptors) are etter. otherwise, each element
has these properties, and they apply to no elements. That seems an odd
design.
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Best regards,
Chris Lilley
Technical Director, W3C Interaction Domain
Received on Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:04:35 UTC