- From: Jens O. Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:09:57 -0800
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> > A few weeks ago I gave a talk about some experimental things some > > of our teams at Chrome are working on. (You can see the subsequent > > blogpost at <http://www.xanthir.com/blog/b49w0>.) I obviously want > > to bring all of them to the group soon, but I want to start on Variables, > > > > So, thoughts? I believe Bert summarized the situation pretty well in <http://www.w3.org/People/Bos/CSS-variables>. TL;DR comments but > > This sucks for authors, particularly as the rise of preprocessing > > frameworks > > The fact that this can be done by pre-processors is actually a > counter-argument to including it in CSS. I agree. In addition, some challenges authors try to find an answer for in variables/constants can be addressed by simple things like declaration-based sorting already: <http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090401/why-css-needs-no-variables/>. -- Jens O. Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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