15566 2012-01-15 10:14:36 +0000 Phrases like "is treated as", "computes to" are unnecessarily vague 2012-12-04 00:51:35 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSS CSS Level 2 unspecified All Windows 3.1 NEW P2 normal --- 1 antonsforums bert jackalmage public-css-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 62732 0 antonsforums 2012-01-15 10:14:36 +0000 Reported by Peter Moulder 10.5 ('height'): # <percentage> # [...] computes to [...] 10.7 ('min-height', 'max-height'): # <percentage> # [...] is treated as [...] Such phrases should be replaced with more explicit ones, such as "The computed value is", etc. Conversation begins: Bug description: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0008.html Bug description: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0011.html 63684 1 antonsforums 2012-02-04 16:27:01 +0000 Another example, reported by Anton Prowse The last sentence of 9.3.1 (Choosing a positioning scheme: 'position' property) is: # User agents may treat position as 'static' on the root element. What does this actually mean? That the used value is 'static'? (Also, this information could ideally be repeated in 9.7 (Relationships between 'display', 'position', and 'float').) See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jan/0087.html (Issue 5) 69923 2 jackalmage 2012-07-12 22:14:07 +0000 "computes to" isn't vague at all. It means exactly what it says - it's defining the computed value. If it's used in any other manner, it's an error and should be reported as such.