Re: [css3-*] Review of functional syntax in CSS

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 4. Backwards compat should be preserved unless there's a very good
>> reason otherwise
>
> Are the proposed comma removals backwards-compatible in the sense that
> prefixed properties would work with extra commas if unprefixed? (It
> seems to me that wouldn't be the case.) Without that kind of
> compatibility with what's deployed, I expected it to be very confusing
> to authors if dropping prefixes needs to be couples with dropping
> well-selected commas, too.

Undecided.  Preferably, no, as it would keep the language cleaner.
But there's a decent chance we'd have to allow it to ease transition
pain, at least on the transform functions and cubic-bezier().

~TJ

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