We've been discussing CSSOM stuff recently in Chrome team, and I
wanted to push back some of the discussion to the CSSWG list. This
email *does not* represent Chrome's position, just my own, though
various team members' contributions have played a part in forming
these opinions.
We've been mostly discussing Anne's proposed Values API. I think it's
a great start, but doesn't address the larger problem that the shape
of the APIs surrounding CSS is somewhat crazy. They don't work
together - you've got el.style pointing to the < at >style attribute on an
element, el.ownerDocument.defaultView.getComputedStyle('someproperty')
to get a resolved value (sometimes a 'computed', sometimes a 'used'
value), and the stylesheet-based API. These all work *completely*
differently, with vastly different access patterns, some being
writable while other are readonly, etc. It's just a bad situation
overall.
So, I've boiled down the use-cases I think are useful to address (not
included in this email for brevity, but can be prov
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