- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:14:55 -0700
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > This is likely another consequence by relying on CSS3 modules in some > places while relying only on CSS21 in others as CSS21 lists it for each > property. For CSS3 the idea was that there would be other values that > can be used for all properties like 'initial', 'calc', 'attr', and if > they are listed for each and every property the grammar becomes indeed > unreadable. There could be a compromise to list, say, <generic-values>, > but that would not necessarily lead to less confusion (as there would > not be a single place that fully expands the macro at the moment). Note that calc() and attr() don't have a problem here - they always resolve into an already-known type. It's just the global keywords that need a special call-out somewhere. ~TJ
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