Re: [css-gcpm] String-set issues

> On Nov 23, 2014, at 7:12 PM, Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 1.  'string-set' is a weird and confusing property name. It sounds like it
>> is for a set of something, but I think really 'set' is meant to mean that
>> you are assigning a (string) value to a name. We don't do that in other
>> places where we have named things. For instance, we have '@counter-style',
>> not  '@counter-style-set'; '--foo', not 'foo-set', the 'font-family'
>> descriptor of @font-face, not 'font-family-set', etc.
> 
> I agree it's an odd name, which has been around for at least eleven
> years. One of the challenges of GCPM is that most of it has been
> interoperably implemented by Prince and AntennaHouse, but not by
> browsers. At this point we've typeset thousands of books over the last
> five years using this property for the running heads.

I think that experience is good, and it is important to share the lessons learned with this group. Hopefully, it was prefixed, and therefore won't prevent us from coming up with a better name and syntax.

Received on Monday, 24 November 2014 14:23:54 UTC