Re: [css3-images] element() in css3-image

On 02/29/2012 12:35 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
> On Wednesday 2012-02-29 11:43 -0800, fantasai wrote:
>> On 02/29/2012 09:19 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:47 AM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>   wrote:
>>>> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/issues-lc-2012
>>>>
>>>> ====== On element() ======
>>>>
>>>> There's a ton of substantive issues on element(), particularly on the use of
>>>> elements that are not in the document. Given:
>>>>
>>>>   - the number of issues and their relative severity
>>>>   - the state of references to CSSElementMap
>>>
>>> The reference is informative.
>>
>> In that case it can be removed without changing the meaning of the spec,
>> so let's do that and avoid the concerns about it.
>
> I object to doing so for the reasons stated in the last paragraph of
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/0253.html

Those reasons don't apply anymore because the current ED doesn't define
a "CSS element reference", it just uses an ID selector, whose behavior
is well-defined.

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:03:50 UTC