[Resent: Re: stability of root em unit spec]

Hi, all!

Next try, with some inserts.

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: Re: stability of root em unit spec
Datum: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:32:44 +0100
An: www-style@w3.org

Keith Rarick schrieb:
> I'm interested in implementing the CSS3 root em unit in Mozilla (in
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472195), but David Baron
> has suggested that it might not be ready to implement, given that it
> was recently renamed from "rem" to "re" in the current editor's draft.
> 
> Is this spec expected to change again, or can it be considered stable?

I would prefer 'em from :root'.

em from body, em from #main, em from .refclass, etc were nice also.
And of course 'ex from ...'.

<insert>
   Because in CSS space separated, multiple values are existing.
   'from' needs to be a reserved keyword too prevent parsing complexity.
   An for complex selector support, if desirable, braces are needed.
</insert>

So i am strictly against 're' (rem or rex?)!

And btw. '% from ...',
e.g. '% from :viewport' instead of vh,vw (by context).
More stuff '%-height', '%-height from ...',
'%-width', '%-width from ...'.

In this case '%-' before a unit is only a fixed divisor of value 100.
With is easy to remember, and can also be orthogonalized
(%-turn, %-em, but the better mnemonicability is more important).

<insert>
   Maybe %-fr, with the special meaning of % of the rest (all %-fr).
</insert>

And instead of 'ch', 'width of "0"'.
(So as special case, you can write 'width of "m" from :root' ;-)


Sorry for my bad English.

jm2c,
   Josef

Received on Friday, 9 January 2009 17:38:27 UTC