- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:30:34 -0700
- To: Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com>
- Cc: Hr Gwea <hrg.wea@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com> wrote: > Tab: When essentially the same feature request came up in March > (https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2016Mar/0211.html), you > agreed to note it as an outstanding issue for now. > > The issue is in the Editor's Draft here: > https://drafts.csswg.org/css-lists-3/#counter-functions > > Has there been specific feedback from other implementers since then? I'm > certainly one person who'd love to see this as a language feature. No, I held the same opinion then. I do sometimes respond differently. ^_^ > When discussing performance impacts, remember that the alternative (widely > used in decorative layouts on CodePen; I don't know how widely used in "the > wild") is to use a CSS pre-processor to generate a series of nth-of-type > selectors, which bloat style sheets and have their own performance concerns. Again, the uses I see on Codepen are typically "toy" examples. Real-world examples of common problems that counters can solve would be appreciated, but I haven't run into them. ~TJ
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