- From: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:25:14 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Le 14/04/2013 00:57, Bjoern Hoehrmann a écrit :
> * fantasai wrote:
>> So, at Rename the Web Forward [1], Sylvain and I concluded that it
>> just might be better to use 'set-' as the prefix and 'get()' as the
>> function name instead of 'var-' and 'var()'.
>>
>> p {
>> set-???: green;
>> background: get(???);
>> }
>>
>> This takes us closer to "custom properties" than "variables",
>> (and has the added bonus of not being an abbreviation!)
>
> Well, `get` and `set` as used here are imperative, while CSS tries to be
> a declarative language, so this seems rather confusing to me.
I like loosing the Variable terminology, but I share Björn’s concerns.
In particular, this is gonna be awkward:
style.getPropertyValue('set-foo')
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Simon Sapin
Received on Sunday, 14 April 2013 07:25:39 UTC