Re: [css3-background] grammar issue

On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:43 AM, Yves Lafon wrote:

>> I disagree. In border-image you can have nothingness between the two slashes. 
> What?? If that's true (and the grammar seems to allow that, unfortunately), then it's really insane, unless 'nothing' is an allowed value, but I bet it is not.

Why would 'nothing' have to be an allowed value? Leaving out a value out from a shorthand does not set it to 'nothing', and it does not change the syntactical rules of the shorthand.