- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 02:34:17 +0200
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, CSS 3 W3C Group <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 7, 2012, at 7:54 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >> The only failure-mode is if some of >> the old syntax overlaps the new syntax, but has a different meaning >> (like what linear-gradients did with <angle>s). The simple solution >> is "don't do that". If you absolutely *must* do that, just change the >> property name. > > At the time, I begged that we just don't do that, without also changing the syntax enough so that the previous version could still be there in a style sheet and ignored in newer UAs. I was told that the rest of WG would not give any sort of consideration of what happened with experimental prefixed values when determining how the value should work in a later draft. Call it a rookie mistake on my part. (Because it was a mistake.) ~TJ
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