Re: [css3-background] last call for comments on "Backgrounds and borders"

Bert Bos <bert@w3.org> wrote:

> The CSS WG published a new working draft of the "Backgrounds and
> borders" module:
> 
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-background-20091015/
> 
> This is intended to be the last draft before changing the status to
> Candidate Recommendation and thus this should also be the last call
> for comments.

It seems to me that the border-image shorthand would be more user
friendly if it allowed slashes between any two option groups.
Something like

    <‘border-image-source’> || /? <‘border-image-slice’>  
        [ / <‘border-image-width’>? [ / <‘border-image-outset’>  ]? ]?
        || /? <‘border-image-repeat’>

I *think* this does not make the grammar ambiguous, and it means
authors don't have to remember which blocks take slashes and which
don't.

zw