- From: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:54:34 +0200
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Chris Eppstein" <chris@eppsteins.net>, "Brian Kardell" <bkardell@gmail.com>, "Jens O. Meiert" <jens@meiert.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
| I highly doubt you want only specified values. If that's the case, | then the feature is just syntax sugar for declaring a variable and | using it twice. No, this is not 'only' a syntax sugar. This is a reference to the specified value of a normal property. How is 'currentColor' or 'self.background-color' a syntax sugar to defining a variable and using it both on 'color' and, say, 'outline-color' ? Defining a custom property trigger inheritance, requires additionnal memory storage, needs to be coordinated accross files (what if you have another, readonly file that specify the background color on an element which you want to have an outline that matches its background color ?) | You want at *least* computed values, so you can, for | example, get inherited values. Well, we can do just like we do with custom properties and say "use specified value if any, inherited otherwhise". Nothing wrong with it.
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