- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:36:39 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Christian Biesinger wrote: > > Computed value: specified values (except for initial and inherit) > > However, there are two different ways allowed for specifying the text > shadow. Does this mean that I need to store which order was used in > order to produce the identical result again? Or can I pick either > serialization? (for the DOM getComputedStyle method) As far as CSS goes, it doesn't matter. (Just like 'red' and '#F00' are identical as far as CSS goes). If you are attempting to implement serialisation according to my canonicalisation proposal [1], then you'd want to serialise to the first possible form according to the syntax. So effectively: <color>? <length> <length> <length>? However, this is not an official standard. [1] http://www.damowmow.com/playground/canon.txt HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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