- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:34:30 -0700
- To: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com> wrote: > From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com] >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com> >> wrote: >> > Am I misunderstanding, or is the proposal that all querying for style in other >> fashions (i.e. not with computed style) should never include the keyword >> 'center' in the output? >> > >> > Should 'left', 'top', 'right', and 'bottom' also be avoided when possible or is >> it a specific dislike of 'center'? >> > >> > Personally, I think it's wrong-headed to convert author-specified "center" >> to "top 50%" or "left 50%" because (a) it's conceptually different and (b) it's >> longer. But apparently the consensus is to move in that direction, so I just >> want to get clear on the mental model being adopted. >> >> It's not conceptually different. 'center' expresses the exact same >> relationship as as "left 50%" or "top 50%". It is slightly longer, but only by one >> or two bytes. > > I was speaking in the English sense, not the "I can redefine blue as green and assert anything" sense. I wasn't speaking in that sense either. I mean exactly what I said - the two express identical relationships. There are zero situations in which using one or the other would produce a different result. They are functionally equivalent (and luckily definitionally equivalent as well). ~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 14 September 2010 21:35:22 UTC