- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:33:36 -0500
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com>, "www-style@w3.org List" <www-style@w3.org>
On Sep 25, 2008, at 3:21 AM, David Hyatt wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2008, at 3:10 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> >> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:12:22 +0200, Mike Wilson >> <mikewse@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> fantasai wrote: >>>> This was as far as I got Friday afternoon at the F2F: >>>> http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/specs/constants/ >>>> >>>> It's not very complete, but I think it captures the important >>>> points >>>> in the discussion. >>> >>> The discussion in the meeting notes >>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0075.html >>> was kind of brief regarding some of the technical problems with the >>> original CSS Vars suggestion. >> >> Well, the CSSOM problem is significant. > http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/specs/constants/ Notice how the above proposal has to worry about having @import constants" to deal with loading problems created by parse time resolution. That hardly seems simpler to me. Variables as Daniel and I specified them can remain unresolved until you end up using those rules in a specific medium. This "global soup" approach is simple and intuitive for authors, since the variable names always cross stylesheet boundaries (without ever having to delay the parsing of a sheet because another sheet hasn't loaded yet), and the last rule specified in the sheet order wins. dave
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