- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:35:20 +0200
- To: "Garrett Smith" <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Sylvain Galineau" <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "bert@w3.org" <bert@w3.org>, "Sam Fortiner" <samfort@microsoft.com>, "Travis Leithead" <travil@microsoft.com>
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:38:31 +0200, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> > wrote: >> ele.style.width.px += 2 > > How does that work? > > Are [you] proposing a special string value? That was the initial idea, yes. It's probably too hard and hacky to do it in practice. >> or some such. (We might need to use a different object than style since >> making something both an object and DOMString for backwards >> compatibility is asking for trouble I suppose.) > > The need to use a different object has not been provided for. I > understand that it is an alternative to avoid (incongruous, > disastrous) hacks necessary to fulfill the proposal for style.width.px > += 2. > > The proposal does not state a need, does not address issue of units, > percentage, auto, etc. The returned object would have other members than just px. > Did you get a chance to see the el.style.getValueAs() proposal? > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Sep/0208.html I'm not really a big fan of that given that the second argument depends on the first. It also does not allow for modification, just reading. E.g. if we want to provide a better runtimeStyle API this would not fit. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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