Re: [CSS3] Some thoughts about functions, notation and gradient().

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Andrew
Fedoniouk<news@terrainformatica.com> wrote:
> Say you have set of existing styles that you carefully crafted in years. And
> now you've got UA that started to support, say, background-size.
> It is just enough for someone or even for you to change background-size in
> default style and you will need to update bunch of other rules to suppress
> it.
> Having function that allow you to define the set as a whole plus existing
> mechanism allowing to redefine particular attribute will give you more
> choices
> of making better and stable designs.

You do know that all shorthand properties reset unspecified properties
to their default value, right?

A new type of background property that gets added to the shorthand
won't have any effect on your older code.

~TJ