Re: [css-variables] CSS Variables are a NEW kind of variable

> Sylvain Galineau wrote:
> 
> > Not to prove that everyone's preference is someone else's ugly but I
> > can't stand the x-convention. If we're going to have a prefix why
> > not make it something readable. For instance:
> > 
> >         :root { define-link-color: blue }
> >         a { color: $link-color }
> > 
> > ...is imo a reasonable balance: terse at the point of use and very
> > explicit at the point of declaration since there should be many of
> > the former for each of the latter.
> 
> This seems like a reasonable compromise.  Maybe shorten the 'define'
> prefix?
> 
>   :root { def-link-color: blue }
>   a { color: $link-color; }
> 
> I'm not a huge fan of the prefix-foo syntax either but I think it's
> better than mucking with the core syntax simply to jam in the parsing
> of $foo for variable definitions. On the use side, having to wrap
> prefix() around everything hurts the readability, especially in
> expressions.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John Daggett

To me the discussion about how CSS variables look like syntactically is out of the scope of this thread. There are other threads related to that.

Sebastian
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Received on Thursday, 31 May 2012 05:02:33 UTC