On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Noam Rosenthal <n...@webkit.org> wrote: >> > Designing this proposal around code formatting is a non-issue in my >> > opinion >> > and it surely didn't stop SVG from providing just one "d" attribute for >> > <path>. Following the your logic, it should be d-N. Sure, <path d="…"> >> > is >> > primarily meant to be written by software. >> >> Please don't try to use reducto ad absurdum; it usually gives absurd >> results. The reasoning for multiple attributes is not "because it's a >> list", it's because it's a list of lists, and would require three >> different delimiters. > > The "style" attribute is perhaps a better example, as it is in some cases a > list of lists, e.g. > <div style="transform: rotate() translate(); background: red > url(foobar.png)" /> > > A list of lists in markup is usually expressed as either sub-elements or as > non-markup syntax inside an attribute; Enumerated attributes are highly > unusual.
Yeah, that's a reasonable counter-example. Note, though, that using style='' for more than testing tweaks is terrible and warned against by virtually every style guide. If you're hand-authoring, using <style> is virtually always easier and more readable. If you're using JS, using el.style is far simpler; literally manipulating the style attribute's value from JS would be insane. Using style='' from server-side code is acceptable, but then all the complexity is hidden from you anyway. Translating this over to src-N, hand-authoring is a real use-case, so it's important. We don't yet have an API, but manipulating smaller chunks in single attributes is likely easier than manipulating the whole thing (but there are tradeoffs as well, so it may be a wash). Server-side generation doesn't care either way, so that's a wash. I'm pretty sure the argument is almost entirely around hand-authoring, where experience with style='' shows that lists-of-lists are bad. ~TJ _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
