Re: 'stroke' shorthand

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just a clarification: I do not question the use of shorthands as used by
> the CSS WG. Once you know the idea behind shorthands they are very
> convenient. See inline content:
>
> On Nov 14, 2013, at 5:50 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> >> Dirk Schulze:
> >> ...
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> Such a behaviour seems to be of limited use and will typically not
> >> meet what authors want ...
> >
> > Dirk's code is obviously useless, but the resetting functionality
> > itself is very useful.
>
> The code is useless if we would already HAVE the shorthand functionality.
> I just wanted to point out that turning stroke to a shorthand could
> potentially break content. As a matter of fact, I was opening some old
> files I still had, and I found quite a mixture and some examples would look
> different after turning stroke into a shorthand. I did not check the export
> of Illustrator and InkScape yet.


I checked Illustrator and it always puts the stroke first:

<style type="text/css">

.st{fill:#00FF00;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:4;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;stroke-dasharray:12;}

</style>
<rect x="246" y="59" class="st" width="374" height="266"/>

so content from Illustrator should not be affected if we were to make this
change.


> >  (Not to say it's always what you want, of
> > course.)  Imagine the "stroke" shorthand was in a different style
> > block from the group of longhands, written by a separate author.  The
> > person writing the "stroke: green;" is expecting to get a "default"
> > stroke, just green-colored.  If it didn't reset, then a bunch of other
> > properties would bleed through and mess up the styling.
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> > ~TJ
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