unitless angles (and times and frequencies) [css3-2d-transforms][css3-3d-transforms][css3-images]

Both CSS 2.0 and css3-values are clear that '0' (without units) is
acceptable as a <length>, but not as an <angle>, <frequency>, or
<time>.

It turns out that:

 * unambiguous parsing of the new gradient syntax proposal depends
   on this (in particular, that '0' is not an angle)

 * css3-2d-transforms has a number of examples of using '0' as an
   angle, e.g., 'rotate(0)'

I think 'rotate(0)' is currently implemented in Mozilla, and I'm
guessing that, given the examples in the transforms spec, it's also
implemented in WebKit.


We either need to:
 * decide that CSS 2.0 and css3-values are correct, change the
   transforms examples, and possibly break some existing uses of
   transforms,
 * make a special exception for angles in transform functions, or
 * fix the gradients spec in some way.

My current inclination may actually be to make an exception for
transform functions.

-David

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L. David Baron                                 http://dbaron.org/
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Received on Wednesday, 4 November 2009 18:19:41 UTC