- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:49:29 -0500
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Cc: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote: > On 7/29/14, 12:42 PM, "Lea Verou" <lea@verou.me> wrote: >>On Jul 29, 2014, at 22:20, Lea Verou <lea@verou.me> wrote: >> >>> When the author is editing non integer lengths (e.g. from 2.5px to >>>2.9px), it usually goes like this (| denotes the caret): >>> >>> 2.5px| >>> 2.5|px >>> 2.|px >>> 2.9|px >>> >>> Instead of being able to observe the result of their changes, all they >>>see is a flash, since the 3rd step makes the value invalid, then it >>>jumps back to 2.9px. It sounds trivial, but it’s encountered so >>>frequently that it’s incredibly annoying. >> >> >>Actually, I just realized my example doesn't demonstrate what I meant. >>The numbers should have been 2px to 2.1px: >> >>2px| >>2|px >>2.|px >>2.1|px >> > > It seems to me that this should be a fix in the tools that allow > live-editing of values. I think it would be bad to allow 2.px as a value > in a stylesheet. Just 2. by itself might be OK, but that’s not going far > enough to solve your use case. Why would 2.px be bad? ~TJ
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