Re: [web-animations] bounded CSS attributes and SVG properties

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:27 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 2013-10-15 12:17 +1100, Shane Stephens wrote:
>> Some animatable values have open bounds (e.g. CSS column-width values must
>> be larger than 0).
>> What should we do when an animation results in a value outside these open
>> bounds? Currently we're thinking that we should set the value to the
>> smallest representable value larger than the boundary edge, but this seems
>> somewhat hacky.
>
> I thought we'd been avoiding introducing open ranges as value
> restrictions on CSS properties.  The spec for column-width looks
> like a mistake to me (and the "Computed value:" line and the
> "<length>" definition in http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-multicol/#cw
> contradict each other).

We *have* been avoiding it, because open ranges are a mistake for real
numbers.  Sorry I didn't catch this earlier for multicol.  I'll open
up a separate thread about this.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:47:13 UTC