- From: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:20:58 +0000
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:36 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: >> # Note: With this specification the clip property is deprecated. >> >> Deprecation is a normative statement, so shouldn't be in a note. The sentence is not a note anymore. >> >> # <shape> >> # >> # In CSS 2.1, the only valid <shape> value is: rect(<top>, <right>, >> <bottom>, <left>) >> >> This isn't the CSS2.1 spec. I changed the sentence. It does not mention CSS2.1 anymore. >> >> Also, <shape> seems overly broad for something that expands only >> to rect(). I think we should change this type's name here and in >> CSS2.1 to something else (<clip-rect>?) and allow Basic Shapes >> to define <shape> for use everywhere else. It's very clumsy for >> <shape> to only define rectangles defined by two points and >> <basic-shape> to have much broader expressiveness than <shape>. > > Agreed. Note that with Bikeshed, you can refer to a function in a > grammar by using the <<foo()>> shortcut syntax, so there's no need for > us to define a grammar production at all for just rect(). I removed the definition of <<shape>> and added a definition for <<rect()>>. It is now up to CSS Shapes to pick up the term <<shape>> and I’ll use it in CSS Masking as well. Note: <shape> is also defined in CSSOM[1] and of course still part of CSS2.1. Greetings, Dirk [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#parsing-css-values > > ~TJ >
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