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Replying to @FremyCompany @LeaVerou @RickByers @gregwhitworth
wait... I should have waited three hours before saying that, shouldn't have? :-) #TooLateNotToBeTooEarly
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Ok, spoke too soon anyway; doesn't pass all cases in Firefox either, depending on interpretation of spec
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define --bg in one stylesheet and use it in your inline style, url will be relative to "wrong" root
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this needs working group resolution, please file a github issue and agenda+
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will do
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What's unclear about current spec? Variables are token substitution, so relative to use.
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Sure, but that is not useful. It means you cannot store images in variables reliably.
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But if this is what we want we can resolve on that; want this minuted though
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We could resolve url() based on the document that created the token, not where it was used
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fwiw, the Chrome team consensus seems to agree with me this should be changed in the spec
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Replying to @FremyCompany @LeaVerou @RickByers @gregwhitworth
FWIW, that implies we shouldn't introduce mechanisms for URL reference other than url().

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Replying to @davidbaron @LeaVerou @RickByers @gregwhitworth
What do you mean by that?
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We've talked about other ways (new functions) for URLs in CSS, but they wouldn't be tokens
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