- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:36:56 +0200
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Andrew Fedoniouk:
> @const and @var handling have significantly different processing models.
> @const handling happens at parse time and @var is getting evaluated at
> runtime.
>
> That is significant shift. E.g. 4bits are required for representing most of
> enumeration attributes in current CSS. @const is not changing this
> requirement.
> And @var handling requires significantly more - in memory and CPU senses.
> So is my question: are there any benefits that are worth changing all this?
I agree with your reasoning, the @const proposal seems like a simpler
solution that fulfills mose people's requirements.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:37:42 UTC