- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:13:39 +0200
- To: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
Also sprach Jeff Schiller:
> > You're right, it's common in programming languages. But CSS was
> > explicitly designed to *not* be a programming language. The last words
> > in the CSS1 Recommendations are:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#calc
> width: calc(100%/3 - 2*1em - 2*1px);
>
> Certainly seems like a programming language to me. Let me check who the
> editors are on that spec...
:-)
Editor isn't the same as inventor or proponent. I have mixed feelings
about the calc() feature, but it provides useful functionality which
cannot be achieved in other ways.
> I also buy Tab's argument re: values going between JS and CSS
JavaScript can also handle other ways of writing numbers (e.g. 0XC56
and 032). Should we add these as well?
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Sunday, 29 August 2010 16:14:23 UTC