- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:23:21 -0500
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org List" <www-style@w3.org>
On Aug 22, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Daniel Glazman wrote: > David Hyatt wrote: > >> (1) -webkit-var(foo) >> (2) =foo= >> (3) $foo >> One concern about using a symbol to represent a variable is that >> there is no way to vendor-prefix it. Then again, just using a >> symbol like = or $ looks nicer than the ugly "-webkit-var" notation. > > It also looks terribly more dangerous because some server modules > already use such syntax for macro expansion on the server's side... > Honestly, I think 2 and 3 are not a good idea. Just so people stop worrying, we won't be shipping CSS variables in Safari if the syntax is not hammered down. I will disable the feature if no consensus has been reached regarding syntax. dave (hyatt@apple.com)
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