- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:45:31 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Lea Verou <leaverou@gmail.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Monday 2012-02-06 00:38 -0800, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Lea Verou <leaverou@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is a recent thread on this list by Tab & fantasai about review of > > functional notation in CSS, pretty much everything suggested there would > > also break backwards compatiblity in incompatible ways just as much. > > We could change gradient syntax, honestly, because I *kept changing > it*. It never got to stabilize, and browsers implemented it at > various points, so everyone was somewhat different *anyway*. I'm not yet comfortable describing anything about gradients as a success. I think it's entirely possible that the number of changes the working group has made will lead to serious failure. And I think it's definitely not a model we should emulate. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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