- From: Tab Atkins Jr. via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:23:20 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Yeah, readability is an issue, but we had the same concerns about custom properties in general at first, and it seems like that was indeed fine once your eyes got used to it. (After all, in CSS spaces are *required* around subtraction anyway.) At least we're guaranteed these aren't confusable with built-in units 😃 However, I don't believe this is "slightly shorter" - it's *hugely* shorter. In raw characters it's a difference of _14 characters per use_, including two pairs of parentheses. It's also not immediately distinguishable from more complex math (*particularly* when embedded in a larger math expression), so you have to parse it manually and realize it's just scaling a variable. That's a big cognitive, visual, and typing load for something that's meant to extremely simple and common. -- GitHub Notification of comment by tabatkins Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7379#issuecomment-1158979809 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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