Re: [css3-background] background-position

Ian Hickson wrote:

>On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
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>>>>Can 'background-position' become a shorthand? Each value could be
>>>>specified by a single property: 'background-position-x' and
>>>>'background-position-y'.
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>>>Why?
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>>In cases you only need to change one. [...]
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>Oh, I see. Yeah, that could make sense. Still, adding properties is 
>expensive.
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perhaps a keyword to "not_overwrite already set value" if it is 
feasable...I havent thought on this long, nor would I have a suggestion 
on what the keyword would be call, or how to describe this semantic to 
users...

damn...on second thought I do not think it would be too easily done, 
because of cascading, we cant be sure "what the old value is" without 
traversing up the cascade at "population" time more than needed, I 
envision a h*** of a lot of code/descriptive text in the spec to 
accomplish this for a simplistic feature...

Received on Saturday, 28 August 2004 18:58:35 UTC