  Re: CSS Variables Draft Proposal  From: Boris Zbarsky
<bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:28:14 -0500
Message-ID: <4D599E6E.8050002@mit.edu> On 2/14/11 3:46 PM, Tab
Atkins Jr. wrote: > This term is underdefined for my usage, >
and perhaps not exactly what I want, though.   > You can't put a
unit in and expect to use it as a unit, for example, the "@var
$foo > px;" is perfectly fine if used as a keyword.  This
shouldn't be hard - > the intent is just that you can't store a
"partial value" in a > variable and then compose it with
something else to get a whole value > (so you can't do something
like "@var $foo px; p { width: 200$foo; > }").  > I heard
conflicting statements about whether "token" was correct here,
> so I just avoided the issue and used a different word.  What
is the  > correct term?  I think the problem you're having is
that this concept of "value" is not  really exactly how the CSS
spec is defined at the moment, and different  UAs have different
internal concepts of "value".  At leas