Re: [css-grid] Does <custom-ident> in grid-template-rows/grid-template-columns exclude auto/minmax/subgrid? from Simon Sapin on 2014-03-03 (www-style@w3.org from March 2014)

From: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:39:05 +0000
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>
CC: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <5314DA59.9020409@exyr.org>

On 03/03/2014 19:18, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Hm, that's a good question.  Technically, the definition of
> <custom-ident> means that something which is allowed in a longhand is
> illegal in a shorthand, which isn't great.  It means we can't always
> serialize a shorthand.
>
> I wonder if it's better to change the definition of <custom-ident> to
> not do this?  Instead, maybe it would only disallow the keywords that
> it can be juxtaposed with.

+1

> That seems hard to define, though.  Hm.

Is it enough to spec "when the grammar would be ambiguous"? Maybe that’s 
not obvious to determine.

-- 
Simon Sapin

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