- From: Wilford Brimley <wilfordbrimley@one2one3.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 00:05:58 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
class = "one two three four....." > Heavy repetition in CSS generally indicates either that the styling > is capricious and doesn't reflect the structure, or simply a > failure to > factor the CSS properly, by listing multiple selectors against a > single rule. > thats not neccessarily the case.. i.e border-left: 1px solid #abcdef; border-right: 1px solid #abcdef; i'm not going to dig for better examples since this is at the point of immediate dismissal. > More generally, this sort of macro processing can be done server > side or > even in the authoring tool, without having to change the over the wire > format. > well, yeah, what can't be. thats what i'm doing.. its just that adding a css generation step every time a change is made is sort of a hassle. substitution seems compact and simple enough to merit consideration. skip any typing, make everything strings...doesn't seem like that drastic of a change. as far as implementation goes, its not a rendering issue that ms could mess up...just a single pass substitution. there is that demand for rounded corners though, so i understand if this doesn't make it in.
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