Re: [css4-background] More relaxed box-shadow grammar

Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:25:21  
+0400:

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> We *could* allow you to omit the second length, but it doesn't seem to
> be worth very much.  How often is a shadow just projected up/down?
> Potentially more useful is to assume that, if the second length is
> omitted, it's *the same* as the first length.  That's a much more
> common case in my experience.

Also it will be consistent with other properties which propagate existing
length to omitted values, like margin and padding.

Received on Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:24:38 UTC