On Mar 4, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote: >> From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net] > > >> That's overkill. There's no reason to involve a slash to address >> Sylvain's >> concern about being able to set both. You just put >> >> [border-box|padding-box|content-box]{0,2} >> >> in the background shorthand. Zero occurrences sets both background- >> clip >> and background-origin to their initial values. One occurrence sets >> both >> to the given value. Two (immediately adjacent) occurrences sets the >> first >> to origin and the second to clip (because you position before you >> clip). >> >> This is much more consistent with CSS syntax elsewhere. > > I agree that this seems much more consistent with existing CSS > practice and authors' > expectations. On it's own it not too bad, but as a way to disambiguate between two subproperties in in 'background' that take the same values, it is inconsistent with any of the proposals to disambiguate <bg-position> and <bg-size>. I don't think this serves authors as well, ultimately, who currently have no expectations of how this disambiguation should occur.Received on Thursday, 4 March 2010 20:36:57 UTC
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