- From: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:51:06 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, Chris Eppstein <chris@eppsteins.net>, Divya Manian <manian@adobe.com>, www-style@w3.org
> This is pretty much exactly what's currently in the draft, except the > draft uses a var- prefix. Yeah, I guess I should have clarified that was way too short and missing important points. I have a tendency to go the other way and be overly verbose which I am trying to fight... Let me try again... As I said before, I like the draft "as is" in all of the moving parts and everything - I even am not personally confused by var-. However, given the evolution and where it ended up, I see that this is causing a lot of confusion and also that once you zero in on "it's just a special property," people seem to get it a lot quicker. What I was saying then was, keep the key points, but lose all "variable" reference -- is that a non-starter? Like, why not just call it the "CSS Author Defined Properties" and use that metaphor all the way down - keeping all the same parts: def-* is a space to hang author defined properties (like data-* in HTML). Some function allows you access to them specially (again, like dataset in HTML, they don't have data- prefixes there either), and $ is a shorthand to that function (again, like dataset without the data-).
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