- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:32:41 -0700
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Cc: www-style CSS <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr. (2012-04-03 19:11): >> However, making them global means that they're valid for all properties, which means we can't alter their meaning for a particular property later when we discover that we really want to make a "do something reasonable" value. > > I’m not sure about that since the suggestion was to make the UA-dependent by default, which should make it possible to specify a stricter behavior later. Anyway, I do see that this might not work for the same reason vendor-prefixes hardly work. Not quite. The reason they don't work is because, when we use them, we often give them a *very specific* meaning. Occasionally it's "do whatever you want by default". More usually, it's "do something specific that doesn't have a good name, but that we consider a reasonable default behavior". In the second case, you can't change the meaning of the keyword to that if it already means something like, say, 'initial'. ~TJ
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