- From: Dennis Amrouche <dennis@screenlabor.de>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:08:54 +0100
- To: mail@matthewwilcox.com
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Am 05.01.2012 um 12:45 schrieb Matthew Wilcox: > Please can we get it to be a valid unit? > > It makes no sense to arbitrarily limit what a valid length unit is on > a given element. A length is a length. Why should % not be valid as a > unit on border-width but valid everywhere else?! I agree, this doesnt make sense at all. > It was proposed years > ago ( http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0032.html > ) and shot down despite the use-case being stated. And I read several times on this list, that the authors of specs should have least interfearence with "user case scenarios" because they simply never know how people find a certain feature usefull for themselves or not... If its consistent, it is sometimes good enough *and* perfect... This might be a good example: > At the moment those > of us doing nice % based responsive designs can’t use a border in > them. Not without the math breaking and the layout screwing up > entirely. That’s caught me out on every single responsive design I’ve > done, and I’ve had to adjust the design each time. Dennis
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