- From: Arron Eicholz <Arron.Eicholz@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:36:55 +0000
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Chris Eppstein <chris@eppsteins.net>, François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Friday, February 17, 2012 3:31 PM Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Arron Eicholz > <Arron.Eicholz@microsoft.com> wrote: > > On Friday, February 17, 2012 2:43 PM Chris Eppstein wrote: > >>Variables are a new primitive. Seems justified. > > > > Altering the core grammar takes a great deal of investigation. An alteration > to the core grammar requires us to analyze all 400+ existing, proposed and > suggested properties, including SVG properties, (there are actually 606 by my > last count, but who is keeping track). We must determine if any of them have > to be updated, altered or changed to account for this new primitive. Don't > forget to multiply all the values that all those properties take and how they > will be affected. This is an extensive amount of work and who knows what > we might miss when looking at all the values that those properties take. > > The answer, luckily, is "no effect", since it's an invalid value for every single > property. Maybe, but have you looked at every property and every value and function those properties can take? I bet there is at least one that has an issue. Sorry can't pick out one for you right now; I am just starting my analysis of every single, existing, proposed or suggested value that can be specified for all the 606 properties I have found. > > Now take into account the OM and Javascript side of things and even how > frameworks interact. Will a '$' interfere or makes things confusing? My guess > is it will, at the very least it will make things confusing. It also wouldn't shock > me if it broke a Javascript library somewhere. > > Yeah, it's the OM side that seems most interesting. > Yeah the OM side of things scares me the most with changing the core grammar and allowing the '$'. -- Thanks, Arron Eicholz
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