Re: [cssom] CSS Value API

On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:30 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> This brings up an interesting point.  Are we sure that (1) colors are
> the only things that will be using single-letter accessors and (2)
> that no color types we define will ever have overlapping accessor
> names?  hsl has an overlapping "l" name with the proposed list
> accessor, and cmyk() (introduced in GCPM, iirc) has an overlapping "m"
> name with the proposed map accessor.  So far none of the colors
> overlap with eachother, if you consider rgb() and hsl() just shortcuts
> for rgba() and hsla().

I'm not a fan of using single letters to access anything. I prefer  
".list" to ".l", and ".red" to ".r". It just makes it so much more  
clear. I guess this could be a problem with something like .length  
though. 

Received on Thursday, 22 April 2010 19:03:42 UTC