- From: Sylvain Galineau <galineau@adobe.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:48:00 -0700
- To: "liam@w3.org" <liam@w3.org>
- CC: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 5/30/13 8:24 AM, "Liam R E Quin" <liam@w3.org> wrote: >On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 13:14 -0700, Sylvain Galineau wrote: >> Fwiw one potential usability pain point I see with this >> feature is that when one enables features A, B and C on a parent and >> then wants to turn only B off on a descendant they do that by setting A >> and C >> on the descendant. > >For XSL-FO I came up with a micro-syntax (sigh) with a leading + and - >letting you turn a specific list of features off or on without affecting >others. > >John Daggett felt it was too complex and "not CSS-like" but I still >think the functionality would be useful even if the syntax I invented >might not be useful in CSS. I think I agree with John; once the font-variant* properties can be depended on this issue should largely go away. Until then it'll cause some awkward. Now should we find ourselves with no more progress in 2-3 years then maybe it'll be time to revisit.
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