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Re: [css-background] Add the *-x/y longhands to appropriate properties?

From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:41:14 -0700
Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-Id: <AE1C472D-DBD1-46AC-AA40-0AD0B3818DD2@gmail.com>
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> 
On Apr 21, 2014, at 10:44 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

>> OK, so I guess 'bg-pos-y:start' would get mapped to 'bg-pos-y:top' and to 'bg-pos-block:start' once you knew the mode was horizontal-tb. Right?
> 
> Well, it would just get mapped to "bg-pos-y: top;".  No need to map it
> into the other property, since they're aliases.

Not sure if you are sitting hairs between "mapping" vs. "aliasing", but my point was that it is only an alias once you know the mode is horizontal-tb, no? Otherwise, if(!horizontal) y != block.
Received on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 01:41:44 UTC

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