Yes, I agree that the use-case is in question. We ran into this when
a using the autogrow plugin:
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/autogrow
This plugin should be modified to check the appropriate sides and
handle correctly.
On the other hand, I don't think that crashing is an appropriate
response from jQuery. I would be happy if it simply returned the
string value as this is at least recoverable and makes more sense than
"Error: invalid argument".
On May 6, 8:08 pm, Brandon Aaron <brandon.aa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that is exactly what we are trying to do. There is an ongoing
> discussion about how to handle retrieval of CSS shorthand properties in the
> ticket 4295 (http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4295). I think most of the
> confusion, at least for me, has been around the use-case for getting the
> short-hand. The reason for my first question... trying to understand the
> actual need. From this thread (and the ticket) it sounds like maybe the
> developer just needs to copy the padding from one element to another.
> Reasonable use-case but what about when the developer wants to copy the
> "background" property. Isn't it more confusing to support just a subset
> versus all the shorthands? Maybe a better solution is to find a better way
> to copy CSS from one element to another... if that really is the primary
> use-case for supporting CSS shorthand properties.
>
> --
> Brandon Aaron
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Matt Kruse <m...@thekrusefamily.com> wrote:
>
> > On May 6, 8:28 pm, Brandon Aaron <brandon.aa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Out of curiosity... what are you expecting back from the call to padding
> > > when it is different for top/bottom vs left/right?
>
> > I think an equally valid question is... what does jQuery intend to do
> > in such situations? Clearly, crashing is not the best option.
>
> > Anything that causes the code to completely crash should be avoided by
> > either checking for valid input (if some inputs are considered
> > invalid) or by deciding how to handle cases that don't have obvious
> > answers (like this case). It's not enough, IMO, to ignore the tough
> > questions of how jQuery should behave and point to an alternative. :)
>
> > In the example case:
>
> > #foo { padding: 5px 10px; }
>
> > you may want to consider returning [5,10,5,10] for example.
>
> > Matt Kruse
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