Re: 'stroke' shorthand

Mmmh... actually 6 is also clumsy. Nevermind, the point is: avoid implicit
property overriding and allow only explicit overriding with the short hand.

Best,
Jeremie


2013/11/13 Jeremie Patonnier <jeremie.patonnier@gmail.com>

> Ah, I realized that my example number 5 is bad in a CSS point of view,
> forget it and focus on example 6.
>
> Sorry.
> Jérémie
>
>
> 2013/11/13 Jeremie Patonnier <jeremie.patonnier@gmail.com>
>
>> Hi :)
>>
>> As an author I have mixed feelings about this.
>>
>> On the one hand I'd love to have stroke behaving like a regular short
>> hand. For author that come from the HTML world it will make things highly
>> predictable and therefor easier to understand.
>>
>> On the other hand, as I know SVG, having the behavior of stroke changing
>> and breaking my existing content will piss me off (as well as all existing
>> authors that already use SVG).
>>
>> That said I suggest the following to resolve that issue:
>>
>> Make stroke a short hand that allows to get several stroke-* value and
>> introduce a new stroke-color property/attribute. But to not breaking
>> existing content make stroke NOT overriding long hand property is they are
>> already set and if they are not explicitly set in the short hand.
>>
>> Some example to clarify:
>>
>> 1. the following produce a path with a blue 10px wide stroke
>>
>> path {
>>   stroke-width: 10px;
>>   stroke-color: blue;
>> }
>>
>> 2. the following produce a path with a red 5px wide stroke (normal
>> overriding)
>>
>> path {
>>   stroke-width: 10px;
>>   stroke-color: blue;
>>
>>   stroke: red 5px;
>> }
>>
>> 3. the following produce a path with a red 10px wide stroke (explicit
>> overriding for color, no implicit overriding for width)
>>
>> path {
>>   stroke-width: 10px;
>>   stroke-color: blue;
>>
>>   stroke: red;
>> }
>>
>> 4. the following produce a path with a blue 10px wide stroke and a
>> linejoin and linecape round (no implicit overriding at all)
>>
>> path {
>>   stroke-width: 10px;
>>   stroke-color: blue;
>>
>>   stroke: round round;
>> }
>>
>> 5. The following will actually produce a 1px black stroke:
>>
>> path {
>>   stroke-width: 10px;
>>   stroke-color: blue;
>>
>>   stroke: all;
>>   stroke: black;
>> }
>>
>> 6. it would also be interesting to allow the following syntax to let
>> authors perform a true reset in a single line
>>
>> path {
>>   stroke-width: 10px;
>>   stroke-color: blue;
>>
>>   stroke: all, black;
>> }
>>
>> 7. Even more fun (and useful for author) would be to add the ability to
>> set up several stroke definition (with blending and stroke positioning —
>> remember there is a proposal to add that new property to stroke — painted
>> in the same order as the background property). The following will produce 3
>> strokes that blend on top of each other:
>>
>> path {
>>   stroke: 1px black, 3px red outside, 3px green inside;
>> }
>>
>> The result of this could be this (I zoomed and materialized the pixel
>> grid to figure it out)
>>
>> [image: Images intégrées 1],
>>
>> or as a true pixel rendering (still with the pixel grid):
>>
>> [image: Images intégrées 2]
>>
>> All of this is exactly the kind of behavior I would love to have if
>> stroke become a CSS short hand :)
>>
>> My 2cts,
>> --
>> Jeremie
>> .............................
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>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/11/13 Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 13, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> 2) Furthermore, a shorthand can not have its “own” syntax. It can
>>> only inherit the syntax of one of the longhand. Following the rules of CSS,
>>> we would need to introduce a new longhand property taking the values of the
>>> current ’stroke’ property.
>>> >
>>> > Slight clarification: it can have its own syntax, but it must
>>> > decompose into longhand properties.  That is, a shorthand is *defined*
>>> > solely by the values of the longhand properties it decomposes into.
>>> >
>>> > But yes, your conclusion is right - the current value of 'stroke'
>>> > would have to move into a longhand, probably 'stroke-color' or
>>> > something.
>>>
>>> I hoped it would be clear from my last mail that I am less worried about
>>> point 2) but more about the first point. Let me paste it again:
>>>
>>> 1) The CSS WG uses the shorter initial part of a term as a so called
>>> "shorthand property". A shorthand property sets all “longhand properties”
>>> by reseting them to the initial value or reseting them again. The “longhand
>>> properties” are all related properties which also share the same initial
>>> part of a term. Meaning, ‘stroke' would be the shorthand property for all
>>> other listed properties above.
>>>
>>> That also means that in the following example, the shorthand property
>>> resets all previously set properties according to the regulations of the
>>> CSS WG:
>>>
>>> stroke-width: 2px;
>>> stroke-linecap: round;
>>> stroke-linejoin: round;
>>> stroke-dasharray: 4px 3px;
>>> stroke: green;
>>>
>>> stroke-width would be reset to 1px, stroke-linecap to butt
>>> stoke-linejoin to miter and stroke-dasharray to none, because stroke (the
>>> shorthand) is set after these properties.
>>>
>>> This makes property handling significantly different in SVG and
>>> potentially break existing content.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Dirk
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > ~TJ
>>>
>>
>
>
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> Jeremie
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