Re: [css-grid] A few questions on Grid gutters (grid-column-gap, grid-row-gap, and grid-gap properties)

On 5 November 2015 at 01:50, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Mats Palmgren <mats@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > I'm about to implement Grid gutters in Gecko and I have a few questions
> > on the spec text[1] (in quotes below):
> >
> > "Name: 'grid-row-gap', 'grid-column-gap'
> >  Value: <length>"
> >
> > Are negative values allowed?
> > (if not, please say so explicitly)
>
> Specified that it's invalid.
>
> > "Animatable: no"
> >
> > Why not? (it seems trivial to support for a <length> value)
>
> We'd accidentally omitted it, so it got the default value. Fixed.
>
> > "Name: 'grid-gap'
> >   ...
> >  Initial: normal"
> >
> > What does "normal" mean here?  Shouldn't this instead say
> > "see individual properties" as usual for shorthands?
> > I'd prefer that, because it simplifies the implementation
> > to not have to support the "normal" keyword and I don't see
> > what benefit it brings.
>
> As Sergio said, it previously allowed "normal", because we were
> reusing column-gap. Fixed by setting to 0.
>

Tab, your changes don't appear online yet. Is that intentional?

Sebastian