- From: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 15:27:06 -0700
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Eric A. Meyer" <eric@meyerweb.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On May 2, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Sylvain Galineau wrote: > I also brought this up [1] and it seems Gradients assume zero angles > require a unit. > > Given the precedent, I agree it would be more author-friendly if zero > was allowed to have no unit everywhere. But even as someone who doesn't > write CSS parsers for a living, I am not sure the convenience is worth > the bug-prone ambiguity or more complex value syntax that can result. On > balance, making length the exception - on historical grounds and because > it is the most-used value type - does not seem unreasonable. But it does > feel icky. I'm strongly in favor of unitless zero everywhere. As an author, I wouldn't be able to remember where I need units and where I do not if the rules differ for different values. Simon
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