Re: [css3-values] syntax of attr()

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:07 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
> Currently the syntax of attr() is
>  attr(<ident>, <type>, <fallback>)
> e.g.
>  attr(bgcolor, color, black)
>
> I get rather confused with positional syntaxes, because I can never remember
> which
> argument goes first, second, etc. So I've been pondering alternatives and
> came up
> with
>  attr(<ident> as <type>, <fallback>)
> e.g.
>  attr(bgcolor as color, black)
>
> which makes it less positional -- the type is more closely tied to the
> attribute
> name than to the fallback, and then the comma behaves to separate
> alternatives
> like it does in font-family.

+1 to more intuitive function syntaxes with less commas.

~TJ