- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 22:14:04 +0200 (MET)
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Aug 4, 4:02pm, Liam Quinn wrote: > The current ACSS Working Draft [1] does not forbid negative percentages > for pause-before, pause-after, and pause. However, these properties take > either a percentage or a time, and time values cannot be negative. Good catch. The intention was not to allow negative values, because in a time-based layout dimension negative values tend to require new laws of physics, or excessive buffering; both are bad. > It > seems as if the intention is for non-negative percentages for the pause > properties, though I could imagine negative percentages being used to > overlap two portions of a document. (Then again, user agents could not > properly handle an overlap and still render a document while loading it... > I guess this would make negative percentages a Bad Thing.) I guess it would. Anyone with a real good case for negative percentages in ACSS pause-before, pause-after, and pause, make it now, or else a clarification limiting them to non-negative values goes into the next revision. > [1] http://www.w3.org/Style/Group/WD-acss-970630 Er, actually http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-acss is not only world readable, it also has a shorter URL ;-) -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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