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Minutes and Resolutions October F2F: css3-color, css3-background, border-parts, constants/variables

By fantasai November 10, 2008 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

CSS3 Color

Spent some time explaining to the IBM accessibility guy that

CSS system colors are not a good solution to accessible coloring of custom widgets. (This is why they are deprecated.)
Deprecated things are still required to be supported, so they are not going away anyway.

David Baron will be clarifying the spec to make this clear.

CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders

Discussed two-token lookahead problem caused by the new fallback color syntax. No resolutions.

Constants/Variables

fantasai had an action item from the last F2F to draw up a parse-time constants counter-proposal to CSS Variables. This was completed and presented.

border-parts

Håkon presented a proposal for a border-parts property, which defines an on/off mask over the border as a series of lengths. There was lots of discussion about syntax, and lots of skepticism about its usability and utility.

Discuss on www-style
Minutes F2F 2008-10-20 (System Colors, border-parts)
Minutes F2F 2008-10-21 (Variables/Constants, Background Shorthand)
border-parts continued on www-style

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