- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 20:21:55 +0000
- To: Zack Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com>, Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>, W3C Emailing list for WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Zack Weinberg
> [re '1*' not being a DIMENSION]
> > Existing syntax just needs these two updates:
> >
> > PERCENTAGE ::= num '%'
> > FLEX ::= num '*'
> >
> > any : [ IDENT | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE | DIMENSION | STRING |
> FLEX
> > | DELIM | URI | HASH | UNICODE-RANGE | INCLUDES
> > | FUNCTION S* any* ')' | DASHMATCH | '(' S* any* ')'
> > | '[' S* any* ']' ] S*;
> >
> > I do not see any problems with this, do you?
>
> You're proposing a change in the CSS2.1 generic syntax. I don't
> think that's worth doing just for the (arguable) additional
> readability of '1*' over '1fl'.
I agree. And if flex can be used in calc(), I don't find * adds any
readability as length unit since it's also an operator in this context.
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