- From: Ben Godfrey <afternoon@uk2.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 22:04:40 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
From Ernest Cline's message:
> However, in order to do that you'd have to increase the complexity of
> the CSS parser so that it can handle unknown keywords.
The keywords would be of a different format such as %keyword% or
${keyword}. The increase in complexity would just be a symbol table
would it not? If we enforced that the constants must be defined before
they are referenced, we would still only need one pass, I think. The UA
could then drop the table before parsing user styles.
> It increases the workload involved in interpreting CSS for what would
> be at most a marginal gain in usability, with no gain in capability.
I'm not sure how great the cost increase would be and it would be a
neat feature.
From David Woolley's message:
> I suspect you are thinking in standard designer "I must totally
> control the user experience" mode, whereas CSS has a fundamental rule
> that the user has last say.
I don't think the purpose of the suggestion was to override the user's
preferences, but to add a tool to make CSS management easier. In the
same way as CSS makes writing HTML easier.
> This basic idea has been proposed and rejected several times over the
> last few years.
Then maybe it's worth considering more seriously?
Ben
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Received on Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:04:48 UTC