- From: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:30:23 -0500
- To: "Elliott Sprehn" <esprehn@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
I'd like to see the DOM be able to deal with some more common "web" types like: numbers, colors - instead of treating everything as a string. But i don't think it's a HTML discussion - feel free to tell me I'm wrong On 4/3/07, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com> wrote: > Err, I just reread the spec. and I was wrong. It states that the shortest > possible combination of properties should be returned that give the same > effect. So I suppose Opera and IE are right here? > > Still, it has no rules on the order that I can find though. > > "" > When dealing with CSS "shorthand" properties, the shorthand properties > should be decomposed into their component longhand properties as > appropriate, and when querying for their value, the form returned should be > the shortest form exactly equivalent to the declarations made in the > ruleset. However, if there is no shorthand declaration that could be added > to the ruleset without changing in any way the rules already declared in the > ruleset (i.e., by adding longhand rules that were previously not declared in > the ruleset), then the empty string should be returned for the shorthand > property. > > "" DOM2 Style spec. > > > - Elliott Sprehn > > > > > On Apr 3, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Elliott Sprehn wrote: > > > > It does say that background first sets all other properties to their initial > values, though the DOM spec doesn't state if these should be returned when > accessing background. > > > The string returned by different browsers differs: > IE -- #afa > Firefox -- rgb(170, 255, 170) none repeat scroll 0% 0% > Opera -- #aaffaa >
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