Re: [css-variables] status ?

On Friday 2012-05-25 09:31 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> 4. Tighten the syntax of variables.  This should be pretty
> non-controversial, as the current definition is way to underdefined.
> This is easy to do - basically it'll just be a space, comma, or
> slash-separated list of "[ <number> | <dimension> | <string> |
> <function> ... ]".  Very permissive, but still disallows weird things
> like unbalanced parens and such.  The WebKit impl already uses this
> slightly restricted grammar (we basically parse it as a "term+", from
> the Appendix G grammar).

I'm concerned about this change (and, in particular, I'm concerned
about it leading to something that's engine-specific rather than
implementable across engines), but I'd like to see details of what
you're proposing before commenting further.

-David

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Received on Friday, 25 May 2012 17:04:42 UTC