- From: Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:31:29 +1100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The spec mentions the potential abuse of some systems. However, it is >> also possible for 'pad' to be abused in a similar way. The total >> characters produced by pad should be limited as well. >> >> Nevertheless, I'm not sure what should happen for a too long pad. >> There are two options: >> >> 1. drop the whole representation, and use the fallback; >> 2. drop symbols until the total length is acceptable. >> >> Personally I prefer the first option though I do not have a strong reason. > > Nope, 'pad' isn't abusable. It produces representations that don't > depend on the value of the counter, and so is safe. > > That is, I'm fine if you can generate a gig of counter representation > by specifying a gig of descriptor in your stylesheet. I'm not fine if > you can generate a gig of representation from less than a kilo of > stylesheet. > > 'pad' is basically equivalent in abuse potential to 'content': > "*::before { content: "[long string here]"; }" is basically the same > thing. What about @counter-style { pad: 1000000000 "0"; } - Xidorn
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