- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:04:45 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Tab Atkins Jr.:
> > > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0449.html
> > > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jun/0505.html
> > > >
> > > > I expect it to be present in the upcoming WD.
> > >
> > > That issue is already present in the ED, at the start of chapter 11.
> > > I put it in there a few days ago.
> >
> > Could you also add spelled-out lists for comparison purposes?
>
> Is this actually needed? It would take a non-trivial amount of work
> to do, and you can just imagine one of the existing non-repeating
> styles with a 100-long glyphs descriptor. It doesn't have a very
> surprising experience, and the visual appearance of the rule isn't a
> very important detail.
>
> Or actually, for a good example of what a verbose @counter-style looks
> like, check out some of the additive styles like georgian or hebrew.
>
> (Though, if we *did* decide that we didn't care about values past 100
> or so, I'm pretty sure I could express them as an additive style in a
> much shorter way than explicitly listing values in a non-repeating
> style.)
That's a very good reason for writing it out. So, yes, I'd like to see it.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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