On Nov 10, 2010, at 8:35 AM, "Markus Ernst" <derernst@gmx.ch> wrote: > Besides the discussion on image spriting being an appropriate use case or not, I think that Lee's actual request is actually not silly. I share his point that it would be consistent to have the possibility to set background position values separately, but I would consider background-position-top, -right, -bottom, and -left properties more appropriate than -x and -y properties, just as for element position, border and whatever. I don't know how that would work if there were 4 component lengths in a single declaration. Seems a little more complicated. > > I do not know whether there are explicit use cases for this, but the background-position property as a shorthand is not really intuitive; I myself have to check a manual every time I need this property, because I always forget the order of the values. So, for some authors, separate properties would make a little thing a little bit easier. I'm more sympathetic to this line of thought, as I also have to pause to think which dimension comes first (it's the opposite of when you specify two length for, say, margin). However, I think this has already improved a lot in the latest spec, because now you can be very explicit about the edge to measure from. For instance: background-position: left 10px top 15px; ...means "10px from left, and 15px from the top".
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