241234 - Serialization of margin and padding is too verbose

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Serialization of

        margin-top: 0px;
        margin-left: 0px;
        padding-top: 0px;
        padding-left: 0px;

results in

        margin-top: 0px;
	margin-left-value: 0px;
	margin-left-ltr-source: physical;
	margin-left-rtl-source: physical;
	padding-top: 0px;
	padding-left-value: 0px;
	padding-left-ltr-source: physical;
	padding-left-rtl-source: physical;

That's very bad for Composer and Nvu...

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See bug 74880 comment 66 and bug 74880 comment 67.

I still feel that we need a better serialization and shorthand architecture in
general... :(

Comment 2

[Vlad Magdalin]

Border styles are very similar. Setting a shorthand border (e.g. "border: 1px solid black;") expands to 33 properties:

	border-top-width
	border-right-width-value
	border-right-width-ltr-source
	border-right-width-rtl-source
	border-bottom-width
	border-left-width-value
	border-left-width-ltr-source
	border-left-width-rtl-source
	border-top-style
	border-right-style-value
	border-right-style-ltr-source
	border-right-style-rtl-source
	border-bottom-style
	border-left-style-value
	border-left-style-ltr-source
	border-left-style-rtl-source
	border-top-color
	border-right-color-value
	border-right-color-ltr-source
	border-right-color-rtl-source
	border-bottom-color
	border-left-color-value
	border-left-color-ltr-source
	border-left-color-rtl-source
	-moz-border-top-colors
	-moz-border-right-colors
	-moz-border-bottom-colors
	-moz-border-left-colors
	border-image-source
	border-image-slice
	border-image-width
	border-image-outset
	border-image-repeat

Comment 3

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

This will be fixed by bug 649142.