- From: Tab Atkins Jr. via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:38:48 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
I'm weakly against adding phi. Most of the time, phi is used for its "golden ratio" design sensibilities. The exact value used isn't important here, just the fact that it's ~1.6, and rectangles with approximately those ratios tend to look good. The exact value of phi is valuable in number theory, and *some* interesting geometric effects (spirals!), but I don't think it has a use-case that isn't solved equally well by just using 1.6. (This critique doesn't apply to pi, because if you don't have a reasonably accurate value of pi, you'll sometimes get obvious near-misses when dealing with anything involving circles. I'm unsure if e falls to the critique, but it's already implicitly used in `exp()` and `log()`, so providing it explicitly seems reasonable.) As I said in the Twitter thread you linked to, if someone can provide a use-case that isn't solved equally well by using 1.6, I could change my position. But right now I don't think it pulls its weight. -- GitHub Notification of comment by tabatkins Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4702#issuecomment-579468750 using your GitHub account
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