- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 09:45:28 -0700
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > I wish you would stop calling it names as a means to try to defeat it. It is no more magic than looking at the information inside a JPG in order to determine what 'background-size:auto' means, or to find an intrinsic aspect ratio which then sets a width or height of an image. In this case, we'd be looking inside a CSS-generated image to determine what the background canvas rotation should be, and then limiting the rotation inside the image to zero, in a happily cooperative fashion. I use the term magic because that's what it is - it's a property value tweaking the behavior of certain values of another property. We try to avoid this whenever possible and keep properties orthogonal. When it does happen, it's usually a property specifically designed to modify a particular aspect of another property in a clear way. This is instead changing the behavior of a specific kind of value when it's used in another property. ~TJ
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