- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:20:47 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Orion Adrian wrote:
> >
> > Another example:
> >
> > input { background: white; color: black; }
> > input:invalid { color: red; }
> > input:disabled { background: silver; }
> >
> > You don't want to have to expand that to multiple rules, it would just
> > become awkard (especially as the number of variants grew).
>
> As opposed to
>
> input { color(white, black); }
> input:invalid{ color(red,); }
> input:disabled{ color(,grey); }
I don't really see the advantage. You still have to cascade everything
separately; what is the different syntax doing that's better?
> Here it doesn't seem to change that much, but there are instances of
> other types of properties that wouldn't gain more from this.
Do you have any examples?
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