- From: Anne van Kesteren (fora) <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 08:29:22 +0200
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> "Gaping holes" or > Reasons why not to use formulas in CSS and especially here: > 1) Nonlinearity. Extremely bad for layout calculations. E.g. what will > happen if 50% - 100px become negative? Alghoritms will become unstable. The same as will happen with 'width:-100px', obviously. I believe that becomes 'width:auto', not entirely sure though. > 2) Need to have interpreter different from ECMAScript. Need to indroduce > grammar (one more), complex rules (how to sum px and em), etc. Why is the complex? A browser already have to calculate every unit into 'px', since that is the where screens are based upon. > 3) Speed of layout algorithms (formula interpretation). What do you mean? Do you think it would take time? (How fast does you calculater work on your computer?) Personally I think that your prososal is less solid, it is unclear how it should be used and how an algorithm would work. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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