Re: [css-variables] How to spec the OM for vars?

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> An alternative is just to hack around WebIDL here, and simply state
>> that the interface has a number of additional attributes of this form,
>> which map (as specified) to the CSS property obtained by transforming
>> the name by <specify camelCase to dash-separated>.
>
> Which would need to be qualified with "If and only if a UA semantically
> supports property x, then it shall implement "partial interface
> CSSStyleDeclaration { DOMString x; }" etc, since as we have seen above, UAs
> are presently not implementing attributes for unsupported properties. Or
> would you mandate they support the attribute in any case, returning null if
> not semantically supported?

In the last paragraph, I meant "a number of additional attributes" to
refer to the set of properties that you support.  Sorry, I wasn't
quite writing spec text there. ^_^

~TJ