Re: Comments on Section 1 of the CSS Inline Spec from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2015-09-02 (www-style@w3.org from September 2015)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:44:01 -0700
To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
Cc: Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, "www-style@w3.org list (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDuSc3g3iyWGYumS+cREm5k0pmb3=SNjZW0qbxM6Qt-rQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:57 AM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2015-08-26 10:32 +0000, Stephen Zilles wrote:
>> 2.      This spec seems to be missing the "inherit" value of the 2.1 "vertical-align" property
>
> In general, we've avoided explicitly listing inherit, initial, etc.,
> in post-level-2 modules.

This is codified practice - check out the paragraph near the end of
<https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values/#component-types>.  Explicitly
listing such keywords is actually a specification mistake.

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 2 September 2015 22:44:47 UTC