- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:42:15 -0800
- To: Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
On Nov 7, 2011, at 11:56 AM, "Florian Rivoal" <florianr@opera.com> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:47:00 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com> wrote: >>> This logic is sound, but at the same time, I am a bit worried about >>> serialization converting one alias to the other, and getting the same kind >>> of complaint we get about red turning into rgb(255,0,0). >> >> Ah, whoops, forgot about that detail. I'm not planning on making them >> compute to each other; there's really no reason to. > > That's a bit better, but at then you get two values that are distinct from each-other, and checking for equality gives false, even though they do exactly the same thing. Not ideal either. > > All in all, I am not violently opposed to aliases, but they do make me feel a bit uncomfortable. Is there precedent for that? Aren't color values the precedent? Or length values?
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