- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 12:37:34 -0800
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, www-style@w3.org
On 11/02/2015 03:17 AM, Daniel Glazman wrote: > On 02/11/2015 11:22, Simon Sapin wrote: >> On 02/11/15 10:57, Daniel Glazman wrote: >>> I don't think we should be able to give the same name to a property and >>> a custom property >> >> Are you suggesting that we should forbid '--X' or '$X' (whatever the >> syntax is) custom properties for any non-custom property 'X'? What >> happens when we add new non-custom properties? > > Yes. I think a line in the prose saying that existing property names > are not allowed would be enough. 'background: var(--background)' is > probably bad practice anyway. I think making such things invalid is a non-starter. No other language has such rules, and neither should we. And also, as Simon points out, we would end up making perfectly valid variables invalid as we extend CSS. This is really an unworkable proposal. ~fantasai
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