- From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:24:31 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
Bert Bos wrote: > Christoph Päper writes: >> >>7.2. White-space control >> >>| Name: linefeed-treatment >> >>I think the property values are self-explaining, but too long. Can you >>rename treat-as-space -> space, treat-as-zero-width-space -> zero-width, >>ignore-if-after-linefeed > no-double? > > > I agree that the names are long, but they are like this in XSL. There's a lot of extraneous language in there; the values could be a lot more concise. The problem isn't just that they're long, which is un-CSS-like, but that they're harder to read and certainly harder to remember. Is consistency with XSL so important as to override ease of use? > PS. I see that the draft still has 'pre-lines' as a value on > 'white-space' (meaning: collapse white-space and wrap as normal, but > still honour explicit line breaks). The current preference in the > working group is to rename it to 'pre-line' (without "s"). But if > anybody knows a better name... linespecific? ~fantasai
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