- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:01:05 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Monday 2011-10-24 22:42 -0400, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 10/24/11 8:14 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > >>You introduce a dependency between properties in terms of how they compute. > >> We don't have that currently, right? > > > >Sure we do. That's precisely what the "computed value" stage is > >*for*. You can't resolve any property using the "em" unit until > >you've computed the font-size property, etc. > > One important thing to note there there is that we currently do not > have circular dependencies between properties. There will be > nothing preventing that in this new setup; we'll need to specify how > the cycle is broken. Speaking of which, I've been meaning to document our existing dependencies so we don't accidentally introduce circularities. I started a wiki page: http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/property-dependencies but it's probably missing a bunch. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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