- From: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 05:56:18 -0800
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
> On Nov 2, 2015, at 03:17, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: > > On 02/11/2015 11:22, Simon Sapin wrote: >> On 02/11/15 10:57, Daniel Glazman wrote: >>> I don't think we should be able to give the same name to a property and >>> a custom property >> >> Are you suggesting that we should forbid '--X' or '$X' (whatever the >> syntax is) custom properties for any non-custom property 'X'? What >> happens when we add new non-custom properties? > > Yes. I think a line in the prose saying that existing property names > are not allowed would be enough. 'background: var(--background)' is > probably bad practice anyway. > > </Daniel> While I agree that -- is terribly inelegant and makes my insides churn every time I see it, using existing property names as custom properties was one of the prime use cases, I believe: for creating polyfills. ~Lea
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