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Re: CSS variable syntax

From: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:12:26 +0100
Message-ID: <533D6C4A.6000205@exyr.org>
To: "Jens O. Meiert" <jens@meiert.com>, W3C WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
CC: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com>
On 03/04/2014 14:19, Jens O. Meiert wrote:
> Tab &c.—
>
>> why the syntax for setting a variable is different from the syntax for
>> accessing it
>
> I know we had this topic a number of times, but I do think these
> inquiries suggest this is not a but a *major* usability issue. I
> didn’t follow the variable syntax change discussions that much but I
> hope this topic is up on the agenda again. There must be a solution to
> this.

Perhaps stop talking of these as "variables" would help? But yeah, we 
still have a var() function.

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Simon Sapin
Received on Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:12:58 UTC

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