Re: CSSStyleDeclaration#length and shorthands.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Alexis Menard
<alexis.menard@openbossa.org>wrote:

> I didn't get any answer so I'm starting to wonder why.
>

Further development and editing on CSSOM is starting to ramp up again with
the recent addition of new editor resources.  Your questions have been
noted.

My current thinking, on which I would like to hear from other commenters,
is that CSSStyleDeclaration.length should include all non-ignored shorthand
properties that are declared in the associated CSS declaration block; i.e.,
if CSSStyleDeclaration.cssText includes 5 non-ignored properties, of either
longhand or shorthand form, then length should be 5. This would apply to
both border:inherit (CSS2...) and border:initial (CSS3) if the appear in
cssText.

If someone feels otherwise, please say so.


> Did I forgot to prefix the subject or something else?
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Alexis Menard
> <alexis.menard@openbossa.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some question related to the length of the style property of a
> > given element. I couldn't find something related to it in the CSS spec
> > (if there is please link it to me and I apologize for the noise).
> >
> > A bit of context :
> >
> > I'm trying to fix https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73002 where
> > WebKit behaves inconsistently for shorthand and the length of the
> > style depending what you set on it.
> >
> > element.style.cssText = "border: 0;" and element.style.cssText =
> > "border: inherit;" are not returning the same "element.style.length"
> >
> > Opera and Firefox are returning something consistent for the length if
> > you set initial, inherit, or any value. WebKit doesn't.
> >
> > Now my questions are the following ones :
> >
> > Should we expand the longhands when initial or inherit is set on a
> shorthand?
> >
> > Should the shorthands be part of the list of properties of the style,
> > so part of the count/length?
> >
> > When I set initial to a shorthand will it mean that the longhands will
> > have initial implicitely set or would it be explicitely?
> >
> > Thanks for the answers.
> >
> > --
> > Alexis Menard (darktears)
> > Software Engineer
> > INdT Recife Brazil
>
>
>
> --
> Alexis Menard (darktears)
> Software Engineer
> INdT Recife Brazil
>
>