- From: Joe Thomas <joethomas@motorola.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 05:54:06 +0000
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Hello,
My name is Joe Thomas. I sent the below query to www-style@w3.org on May 23, but the query is not yet available on the public forum. Could you please take a look at it ?
Thanks
Joe Thomas
Motorola Mobility Inc.,
Sunnyvale, CA.
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Date: Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [css-background] Order of properties in background shorthand
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Hi,
I would like to discuss about the order of CSS properties in background
shorthand.
A bit about the context:
Currently getComputedStyle of background shorthand property in webkit does
not return the three properties newly added to the background shorthand in
CSS3 namely background-size, background-origin and background-clip. We are
in the process of adding support for these three properties in
getComputedStyle as part of https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86155
The order of the properties in background shorthand as per CSS3
specification http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-background is
<bg-image> || <bg-position> [ / <bg-size> ]? || <bg-repeat> ||
<bg-attachment> || <box>{1,2} || <bg-color>
The above order is different from the order mentioned in CSS2.1
specification http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#background-propertiesfor
the same properties, which is <bg-color> || <bg-image> || <bg-repeat>
|| <bg-attachment> || <bg-position>
If the UAs started generating background shorthand property as per CSS3
spec, that makes it harder for older UAs that supports only CSS2.1 spec
(like IE6) to parse these generated results. Also from my testing, I
observed that IE6 fails to parse the background shorthand if the order is
mentioned as per CSS3 spec. On the other hand if the order of properties in
background shorthand gets changed to CSS2.1 order followed by three
properties newly introduced in CSS3, older UAs like IE6 can parse all the
properties mentioned in CSS2.1 correctly and it ignores the new properties
which are added at the end. This will help us to maintain backward
compatibility. Latest Opera Browser (v 11.64) generates background
shorthand value in getComputedStyle in this order. So the below order will
be helpful in maintaining backward compatibility with older UAs
<bg-color> || <bg-image> || || <bg-repeat> || <bg-attachment>
|| <bg-position> [ / <bg-size> ]? <box>{1,2}
Could you please let us know your thoughts on this?
Thanks
Joe Thomas
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c, that makes it harder for older UAs that supports only CSS2.1 spec (like =
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per CSS3 spec. On the other hand if the order of properties in background s=
horthand gets changed to CSS2.1 order followed by three properties newly in=
troduced in CSS3, older UAs like IE6 can parse all the properties mentioned=
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Browser (v 11.64) generates background shorthand value in getComputedStyle =
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compatibility with older UAs</div>
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ace:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:small">
Could you please let us know your thoughts on this?<br><br><br>Thanks<br>Jo=
e Thomas<br></div>
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