- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 20:27:39 -0400
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, "Eric A. Meyer" <eric@meyerweb.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Friday 2011-05-06 16:43 -0700, David Singer wrote: > > On May 6, 2011, at 16:08 , L. David Baron wrote: > > > On Friday 2011-05-06 10:26 -0700, David Singer wrote: > >> Are we sure that there are no > >> parsing-depends-on-units-implying-type places in CSS? > > > > In addition to the gradients issue already pointed out, there's also > > the 'animation' shorthand property, where in addition to an ordering > > rule for animation-duration vs. animation-duration, there needs to > > be a way of determining whether a '0' is for one of those properties > > or is for animation-iteration-count. > > > > (I'm also not saying that there aren't others.) > > Thanks. One is plenty; it destroys any confidence that the > number of cases is and always will be zero. This makes general > unitless zeroes dangerous and complicates parsing to no useful > effect. That said, I don't know of any examples that are already in CR, and I suspect that there aren't any (due to the low use of non-length units in drafts that are already in CR). So these are things that we can fix. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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