- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:44:34 -0800
- To: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
- Cc: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@free.fr>, "public-fx@w3.org" <public-fx@w3.org>
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >> Firefox supports the full bg-position syntax in nightlies as of today. >> I think Opera does as well. > > Yeah, confirmed that Gecko nightlies support the new > background-position syntax. I don't like it, but it has a bunch of > traction and might not be worth removing from background-position > itself. > > I still don't think we should try to propagate the syntax to other > properties like transform-origin. It should be restricted to > background-position only. Anything else that wants <position>s should > use the older, simpler syntax only. If it's too late to keep > background-position simple, it's not too late for other things. Nope, we purposely define the <position> token to be equivalent to <bg-position>, precisely so that other specs can use it. I know you don't like the syntax, but I and fantasai do, at least, and have no problem with it being used for more properties in the future. ~TJ
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