- From: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:23:58 -0500
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > I agree that having the list for lengths reduces the scope of the problem > somewhat. ?But the color quirk means that any shorthand that includes colors > will run into ambiguity issues if any keywords for any subproperty only use > letters in the range a-f. ?I _think_ we can't hit that case now, but going > forward that will either place a restriction on keyword values or we'll need > to define how to resolve the ambiguity somehow. > > Even for lengths, if we ever add any new subproperties to border, say, that > happen to take numbers we would run into trouble. ?I'd rather not > overconstrain future development of CSS by how we define quirks behavior. Why not just say that these quirks only apply to existing syntaxes, not new ones? I was quite surprised to find that unitless numbers worked for 'transform-origin' in quirks mode.
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