- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:34:05 -0500
- To: Roedy Green <roedyg@mindprod.com>
- Cc: site-comments@w3.org
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 11:33 -0500, Ian B. Jacobs wrote: > Ho Typo! That was meant to be a friendly "Hi" .... _ Ian > Roedy, > > I think that you may wish to send this to www-style@w3.org. Thanks! > > _ Ian > > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 04:24 -0700, Roedy Green wrote: > > This is not a site comment per se, but I could not find where I where > > I was supposed to send items for the "wishlist". Perhaps you could > > pass it on to the proper party. > > > > > > The big thing CSS is missing is named constants. You will find > > yourself mentioning the same colour or group of fonts, or font size > > over and over. You must make bulk search/replace changes. The problem > > is when two things temporarily, incidentally have the same colour, you > > cant change just some of them without manually examining each instance > > carefully. The problem is analogous to using literals in Java programs > > instead of named constants. > > > > If you could simply assign a name to a colour, font family group, > > font size etc, then you could make a change in only one place and have > > it ripple though the entire style sheet. > > > > Until CSS develops this ability, or something equivalent, you might > > fudge it with a primitive macro preprocessor for CSS. However, such a > > scheme would have all the drawbacks any language preprocessor has. You > > would not be able to validate or edit the text with TopStyle, for > > example. > > > > > > > > Roedy Green > > Canadian Mind Products > > #101 - 2536 Wark Street > > Victoria, BC CANADA V8T 4G8 > > (250) 361-9093 > > roedy@telus.net > > http://mindprod.com > > -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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