- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:32:29 -0700
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:07 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > Brad Kemper wrote: >> On Aug 15, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>>> What I am against is adding complexity and confusion to the >>>> grammar just to >>>> serve some extreme edge cases. >>> >>> It only adds complexity when you want it. In the simple, common >>> cases >>> it has no effect at all. >> It adds unnecessary complexity to the grammar. That's a bad thing. > > It is, in fact, simpler to re-use existing syntactic constructs Simpler for who? Implementors? I'm talking about simpler to read, understand, etc. A single key word is simpler to parse mentally than five, or than a string of measurements that are based on a completely different coordinate system than the color-stop measurements that need to be in the grammar anyway.
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