- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:21:53 -0700
- To: Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com>
- CC: 'Andrew Fedoniouk' <news@terrainformatica.com>, www-style@w3.org
Mike Wilson wrote:
> Andrew,
>
>> We've found that natural constants first-seen-first-used approach
>> works just well. For example:
>
> You suggested the same thing back in June and it was discussed here:
> http://www.nabble.com/WebKit-now-supports-CSS-Variables-td18076178i60.html#a
> 18162114
> or
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0351.html
> ..
>
> and I agree with the other posters at that time that it would be
> confusing to have "first rule overrides later rules" for
> variables/constants when the rest of CSS uses "last rule overrides
> earlier rules".
I agree with that as well. If fallbacks are important, then we can
define some syntax that explicitly says it's a fallback.
@define fallback values {
foo: bar;
}
etc.
~fantasai
Received on Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:49:12 UTC