Re: [css-backgrounds] Re:CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 and border-attachment

On 01/13/2018 05:51 AM, Dennis Heuer wrote:
> Gérard,
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:27:05 -0500
> Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org> wrote:
> 
>> Le 2018-01-11 17:01, Dennis Heuer a écrit :
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> It's embarrassing that authors hide communication behind third-party
>>> systems, expecting participants to create accounts...
>>
>> Realistically speaking, what would you propose instead as an
>> alternative to give feedback to CSS specifications editors? CSS
>> specifications editors can be reached by using a public mailing list
>> (available to all) under the control of W3C. That makes sense to me.
>> Any public discussion forum that has no rules, no registration of
>> some sort will easily become chaotic, ugly, spam-infested and useless.
> 
> Other authors put an email address into the document. I had to find
> this list myself, not knowing if they WILL actually read it. I don't
> like this separating behaviour... However, I wonder for a long time
> why no ticket/bug system supports a way of registration like for
> mailinglists. In case of BugZilla you even have to beg to get your
> account closed by the admin. Actually, one could even send tickets via
> emails written in wiki script. I just mean... But THEY don't want to.
> They want you to have an account - and they want your data!

Hm, earlier drafts always linked to the www-style mailing list. It looks
like the boilerplate changed to link to GitHub. It is good to link to
GitHub since that is the preferred forum currently, but www-style still
exists, and imho should be linked to as an alternative for anyone who has
a problem with using GitHub.

>> - - - - -
>>
>> Maybe (mere suggestions):
>>
>> 'fixed' should have been named 'fixed-in-viewport' or
>> 'fixed-within-viewport' or something like that.
>>
>> 'scroll' should have been named 'fixed-in-element' or
>> 'fixed-within-element'.
>>
>> 'local' should have been named 'not-fixed'.

I agree the names are sub-optimal. Unfortunately when the 'overflow'
property was created, the CSSWG picked a behavior for 'scroll' that
imho didn't make any sense--affixing the background to the scroll
container rather than to its contents--and then we had to come up
with another keyword that meant “scroll with the contents”. :/

But it is, alas, not something we can fix now.

~fantasai

Received on Monday, 15 January 2018 22:44:58 UTC