Re: [csswg] Agenda conf call 03-dec-2014

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2014, at 1:55 AM, Linss, Peter <peter.linss@hp.com> wrote:
>> Issue 44: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Nov/0496.html
>
> Please note my concerns on changing <url> to <image> in level 3. Browsers did not catch up with <image> on all properties yet and for level 3 the main goal is to reach REC ASAP.
>
> Florian’s suggestion to limit <image> to just url() at the beginning and let other specifications extend <image> moves testing efforts to the other specifications. This is fine for background and borders (where we do that already) but not appropriate for CSS UI. The reason is that <image> must be tested for the CSS3 Images spec somewhere and background and borders seems to be the right spec. Doing it for all specs seems to be overwhelming.
>
> I support changing <url> to <image> in level 4.

Worrying about testing as a driver for (not) making spec changes is a
pretty big Priority of Constituencies inversion, and so I don't think
it's a valid reason to decide this on.

(But lack of support is.)

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:40:25 UTC