Re: [css-values] Deprecating the 3-value <position> form



On 10/8/13 5:35 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

>The 3-value position form (which allows things like "left 20px 50px"
>as an equivalent to "left 20px top 50px") is barely used, but
>extremely confusing, and makes it very difficult to use <position>
>alongside anything else - it's too often grammatically ambiguous.
>
>There seems to be at least moderate agreement that this form is a
>mistake (at least, between me, fantasai, Alan, and Dirk).  Would
>anyone mind if we deprecated it, making it a quirk of
>background-position, and just define <position> to only have the 1/2/4
>value clauses?

Oh Thank God, YES PLEASE.

Received on Wednesday, 9 October 2013 17:46:12 UTC