Re: CSSStyleDeclaration: Setting only a value or a priority

On Wednesday 2013-08-21 14:46 -0700, L. David Baron wrote:
> > Another option is to let setProperty(value) i.e. with the second
> > argument omitted leave the priority alone. This would be a change in
> > behavior, but the current behavior seems unexpected and is likely to
> > result in buggy code. Does anyone know if there are pages that would
> > break if setProperty(value) (or with the property = value; syntax)
> > would *not* unset !important ?
> 
> I think this is a really bad idea (which has apparently now made its
> way into the spec according to comments in
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903239 , although I
> don't see any mention in this thread of it).

Also, I think having a semantic difference between an omitted value
and an empty string value here is a really bad idea and incredibly
confusing.

-David

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