Re: [css3-background] New use case for background-position-x (&y!)

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:59:45 +0100, Lee Kowalkowski 
> <lee.kowalkowski@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> All instances of the shorthand properties that lack the individual
>> properties ought to have started out as separate properties, and
>> optimised afterwards.  Then you would have identified and resolved any
>> interaction issues with other properties up front.
> 
> I do not really agree with this, but given that both Safari/Chrome and 
> IE have background-position-x and background-position-y I think we 
> should add them.


I don't think so. This is just compounding the problem that is already 
present. It is only with background-position that CSS uses x and y 
coordinates. I believe this is since such a technique was used with 
IE4 and 'coord' which are generated by OS app. Also, how do we offset 
from right and bottom? Something like the following is not good.

background-position-x: right 10px;

background-position-y: bottom 10px;


1. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system>



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