Re: [css-masking] boxes

Hi,

The SVG WG agreed to rename the keywords fill and stroke (used for clip-path, mask-origin and mask-clip) to fill-box and stroke-box.

I already updated the CSS Masking spec[1].

Greetings,
Dirk

[1] http://dev.w3.org/fxtf/css-masking-1/#the-clip-path

On Mar 5, 2014, at 5:56 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:

> On 03/05/2014 03:07 AM, Dirk Schulze wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 5, 2014, at 9:58 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> # <shape-box> | fill | stroke | view-box
>>> 
>>> Seems to me maybe fill and stroke should be fill-box and stroke-box?
>>> To be consistent that they're all part of the same set of keywords
>>> selecting a type of box?
>> 
>> This was proposed during the F2F but rejected. The WG wanted to avoid
>> “box” since it does not reflect the terminology that we came up with
>> for boxes. Even if we have content-box, padding-box and margin-box,
>> it was said that we don’t want to continue using the wrong terminology
>> for new keywords.
> 
> I don't think this reasoning is benefiting authors in this case
> and is prioritizing pedanticness over usability. Usability should
> win.
> 
> ~fantasai
> 

Received on Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:25:19 UTC