On Tuesday 2014-12-23 15:56 +0000, Alan Stearns wrote:
> On 12/23/14, 6:58 AM, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday 2014-12-23 08:57 +0100, Daniel Glazman wrote:
> >> 5. access to unknown properties and values
> >
> >> 7. add a new property to the parser, to allow layout experiments through
> >> the box tree
> >
> >Some previous discussions on items 5 and 7:
> >
> >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Aug/thread.html#msg169
> >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188321 (esp. comment 14)
> >https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14203
>
> Are 5 and 7 required for arbitrary properties? I’ve assuming that custom
> properties would be sufficient.
Custom properties probably aren't sufficient to simulate
non-inherited properties.
They also probably aren't sufficient to simulate error handling
(which requires discarding invalid values and falling back to the
next value in the cascade).
-David
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