Re: [css3-images] aliases for 'cover' and 'contain' from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2011-11-04 (www-style@w3.org from November 2011)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:38:07 -0700
To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCCKUzV-X8E1V+URXVUH2gBKot=p3PHLZxYqFHH9-usrg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:54 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
> The radial-gradient() spec defines 'cover' as an alias for 'farthest-corner'
> and 'contain' as an alias for 'closest-side'.
>
> We generally try to avoid aliases in CSS, why do we have these here and
> can we remove one of the pairs?

Blame my youthful naivete.  I originally created the closest/farthest
keywords, and then thought that reusing bg-size's cover/contain
keywords would be more intuitive, so I had them both.

I know I've seen usage of both forms in the wild.

~TJ

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