- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 20:36:26 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
fantasai wrote: > > Nope. Descriptors are not properties, there's a whole set stuff in > > propdefs that don't make sense for descriptors. Here's the > > 'font-style' descriptor definition in CSS3 Fonts: > > > > Name: font-style > > Value: normal | italic | oblique > > Initial: normal > > > > Why would the definition of a *descriptor* need an "Applies to" line > > when it's defined as part of the definition of the @font-face rule? > > Well, we have similar things in, for example, @counter-style. And > probably will have similar things in other at-rules. So I think > it does make sense to, in the descdef table, write down the at-rule > to which the descriptor belongs. In that context what you're describing is "defined within" not "applies to". Conflating descriptors with properties in any way is a bad idea, so we shouldn't be "reusing" fields in the way proposed. Cheers, John Daggett
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