Re: [cssom] Identifying types and shorthand and unsupported properties



On 7/13/13 10:41 PM, "François REMY" <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com> wrote:

>>>± It's already happened in IE for many, many years. Unknown properties
>>>are
>>>± added to the style object as an expando. So if you have:
>>>±
>>>± #something {
>>>± foo: bar;
>>>± }
>>>±
>>>± …then document.getElementById('something').style.foo returns "bar".
>>>
>>>I'm not 100% sure about that one. I know for sure that if you do <el
>>>style="foo: bar"> in IE, that works, and also that you can access the
>>>value at the CSSDeclaration level if it's in a stylesheet, but I don’t
>>>think the cascade enter in action at any point for those expandos. We
>>>may
>>>want to double-check that.
>>
>> This example certainly works. The feature is definitely super simple and
>> for polyfilling it does the job.
>
>Okay, got it. You probably meant "currentStyle" for which you indeed get
>"bar".

Or getComputedStyle() in IE9+; I was being sloppy...

>
><!doctype html>
><html>
> <head>
>  <title>...</title>
>  <style>
>   #something {
>    foo: bar;
>   }
>  </style>
> </head>
> <body>
>  <div id="something"></div>
>  <script>document.write(document.all.something.style.foo);</script><BR>
>  
><script>document.write(document.all.something.currentStyle.foo);</script><
>BR>
>  
><script>document.write(getComputedStyle(document.all.something).foo);</scr
>ipt><BR>
> </body>
></html>
>
>outputs
>
>    undefined
>    bar
>    bar
>
>in IE10
>
>
>
>>>It could be possible to instruct the browser to keep some properties
>>>even
>>>if he does not understand them, as an opt-in:
>>>
>>> @polyfill background-3d-distance {
>>> cascade: true;
>>> inherit: false;
>>> initial: 0px
>>> }
>>>
>>>That would however only work at a style-sheet level (if you have
>>>multiple
>>>stylesheets, you need to specify this in each one of them, before any
>>>declaration).
>>>
>>>
>>>Thoughts?
>>
>> Well, if this rule can be at the end of all your stylesheets then you'd
>> better keep all the properties if you don't want to reparse...
>
>Okay, let's add some @coffee at-rule at the end of the reply and let
>Sylvain reparse the mail :-)
>
>hint: "at the stylesheet level" ... "before any declaration"     

Doh :) I think we're getting way ahead of ourselves though...

Received on Sunday, 14 July 2013 15:03:41 UTC