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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/0994.html At a minimum the property definitions must be updated to only allow positive integers if its decided to not take this feedback.
Reassigning all grid bugs to me.
Negative spans are disallowed in the grammar now, but you can span from either edge, so it's basically the same thing.