- From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:36:09 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
>>> So I'm tagging this thread as [css4-background] as well, which I >>> think should interest some additional folks in the conversation. >> >> The main issue with background-position-x and background-position-y >> is that they prevent the introduction of logical-keywords positions, >> something the i18nwg has been requesting for many years and which >> we deferred from L3 to L4. There's some discussion of the issue here: >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jun/0498.html > > I can imagine cases where you want transform-origin to be writing-mode > aware. For example, I might want to spin a line of text around the 5th > letter. Agreed. Due to things like that, we should generally stay away from introducing *-x and *-y properties, especially since they don't add anything new to the platform now that we have variables. In any situation where we are tempted to add a pair foo-x and foo-y properties as longhands to an existing shorthand of the type "foo: x y;", we need to remember that users can get the exact same effect by manually setting "foo: var(x,0) var(y,0);" and then using the var-x and var-y properties the way they would have used the foo-x and foo-y properties. - Florian
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