Re: [css-backgrounds] background-position-x/y and logical positioning

On 08/14/2015 05:12 PM, Marat Tanalin wrote:
>
> It would probably make sense first JUST to standardize what all browsers
> except for Firefox ALREADY support, and then add brand new features like
> `x-start` (which NO browser supports yet).
>
> The only reason why `background-position-x/-y` (in their state already
> implemented in other browsers) is not implemented in Firefox/Gecko [1]
> is JUST because the feature was nonstandard. And it unlikely makes sense
> to postpone mostly supported functionality for years due to that absolutely
> unsupported new features are not yet ready to become standard.

The reason we've held off on standardizing this feature is because we didn't
have a way to make it compatible with logical keywords, which we knew we
wanted to have. So that is why we need to solve these together: we need a
solution that can solve both problems.

~fantasai