- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:12:49 +0100
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- CC: Zack Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > '*' as a unit is used already in these places: > > 1) In html, so called multi-length or relative units: > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-length > Used in tables[in supporting UAs] and framesets (@cols and @rows). Thank you, I confess I had overlooked that (in that I was unaware of multilengths per se, although I had seen the asterisk used in frameset specifications -- and completely failed to understand it). > 2) In following CSS3 proposals: > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid/ > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-layout/ OK, but they are still /proposals/ : there is still time to get "*" replaced by something more mnemonic :-) Philip TAYLOR
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