- From: Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:33:26 +0200
- To: "'L. David Baron'" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, "'fantasai'" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
Mike Wilson 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.
> <snip>
> So, could you or anyone else elaborate a little on the main technical
> problems?
Hi David (Baron),
I was reading the meeting notes again
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0075.html
and it seems this part was central to changing into the parse-
time route:
David: The current CSSOM only supports one value per property
per declaration
David: You can't do that and get the cascading order right
David: And change the variables after the fact
Daniel: Then these need to be constants
The notes are a bit brief so I don't follow this all the way.
It would be great if you could expand a little on why having
changeable variables breaks the cascading order?
Best regards
Mike Wilson
Received on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 07:34:11 UTC