I see where you are going with removing the "-gt-" prefix, and yeah this is
a rendering language specifically for the geoserver renderer - no need to
reference the SLD portability questions at all.

aside: The 100k is a great idea, perhaps we can encourage YSLD to adopt it.

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Jody Garnett

On 28 May 2017 at 01:04, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am working on a large-ish CSS style, that gave me the opportunity to
> observe a few annoying bits in the syntax.
> I set out to fix those, in particular:
>
>    - Scale denominator numbers can be long and that makes them hard to
>    read. Who can say, without counting the zeros, if 10000000 is 1 billion, 10
>    millions, 1 million? I am going to allow a shortcut syntax with k and m
>    specifiers, e.g 10m, that should make common scale denominators quick to
>    type and read (I've noticed ysld allows for scientific notation but
>    honestly.. do I really want to type and read "1e10", how many will
>    instantly realize it's the millions?)
>    - Scale denominators are not scales, so I'll add a more compact and
>    more correct @sd variable ("scale denominator") to use in scale dependency
>    rules, e.g. [@sd < 10k], while preserving @scale for backwards 
> compatibility
>    - Remove the -gt- prefix from vendor options. In SLD there is a
>    reference spec and it makes sense to have vendor options, CSS is its own
>    languages with no base reference, there is no need to mark anything as
>    vendor, let alone specifically point to geotools in the prefix. While the
>    old syntax will still be supported for backwards compatibility. So, for
>    example, it will be "label-priority" instead of "-gt-label-priority".
>    - Easy support for enviroment variables, instead of having to call
>    onto env('foo') or env('foo', 1234) in CSS one will be able to just do @env
>    or @env(1234)
>
> Once that is done, I'll probably propose the module for graduation in
> supported land (for 18.0)
>
> Considerations, objections?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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