- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:26:46 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:18, L. David Baron wrote: > On Friday 2005-10-28 22:22 -0400, Kelly Miller wrote: > > I was just sitting there thinking about min-height and max-height, > > and I was thinking: why not have a syntax for unit ranges? Maybe > > something like this: > > > > height: range(18px,30em) - No smaller than 18px, no larger than > > 30em. height: range(18px) - No smaller than 18px. > > height: range(,30em) - No larger than 30em. > > > > The syntax is the same as the one used in regular expression > > syntax, but I think it'd work here. Anyone got any > > suggestions/ideas? > > See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Jul/0053 for a > previous similar suggestion. It is no doubt possible to define 'height' as a shorthand for 'max-height' and 'min-height', but I don't see the need. In finding the optimum of compactness, readability, learnability, memorability, etc., I think this shorthand hinders more than it helps. Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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