- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:35:55 -0500
- To: Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com>
- Cc: 'www-style list' <www-style@w3.org>
On Jun 24, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Mike Wilson wrote:
>
> David Hyatt wrote:
>> WebKit now has an experimental implementation of CSS variables as
>> outlined here:
>>
>> http://disruptive-innovations.com/zoo/cssvariables/
>
> Nice to see support for this kind of constructs. Did you consider
> adding support for reusing groups of multiple property assignments
> as well?
>
> Extending your syntax it could look something like this:
>
> @variables {
> myColor: #fe8d12;
> myVarGroup: {
> color: var(myColor);
> background-color; yellow;
> }
> }
> #elem1 {
> color: var(myColor);
> }
> #elem2 {
> vars(myVarGroup);
> }
I don't think we should be nesting variable calls inside other
variable definitions. That seems needlessly complicated. You'd have
to check for cycles as you did variable resolution.
dave
(hyatt@apple.com)
Received on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:36:38 UTC