# CSS Custom Properties for Cascading Variables Module Level 1 Disposition of Comments for 2013-06-20 LCWD

Last call document: http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-variables-1-20130620/

Editor's draft: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-variables-1/

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- Rejected and no response
- Rejected and negative response
- Deferred
- Out-of-Scope or Invalid and not verified

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    Issue 1. #
    Summary:  Animating a custom property used as an 'animation-name' value introduces circular dependencies.
    From:     Tab Atkins
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jun/0173.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jun/0436.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 2. #
    Summary:  How should custom properties treat the CSS-wide keywords?
    From:     Tab Atkins
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jun/0173.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jun/0392.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 3. #
    Summary:  Should the 'all' property affect custom properties?
    From:     Tab Atkins
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jun/0173.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jun/0392.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 4. #
    Summary:  How is a CSSVariablesMap enumerated?
    From:     Alan Cutter
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jun/0413.html
    Response: (moot, interface was removed)
    Closed:   Invalid

    Issue 5. #
    Summary:  What's the syntax of the "variable-name" argument in var()?
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0507.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0510.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 6. #
    Summary:  What affect do var() functions have on @support queries?
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0506.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0509.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 7. #
    Summary:  Should BADSTRING and BADURL tokens be allowed in custom properties?
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0525.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0539.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 8. #
    Summary:  Are empty or white-space-only custom property values valid?
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0520.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0540.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 9. #
    Summary:  What is the computed value of a property that contains abutted tokens due to variable substitution?
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0555.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0561.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 10. #
    Summary:  Why aren't custom properties exposed through CSSStyleDeclaration?
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0572.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0578.html
    Closed:   Invalid

    Issue 11. #
    Summary:  The value of a longhand when var() is used on the shorthand is undefined.
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0573.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0644.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 12. #
    Summary:  Undefined whether a var() with invalid syntax invalidates the property or not.
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Dec/0148.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Dec/0158.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 13. #
    Summary:  Spec doesn't define what to do with a cycle of a single variable.
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Dec/0316.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Dec/0323.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 14. #
    Summary:  Should cyclic var()s with non-cyclic fallbacks be invalid?
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Dec/0315.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Dec/0357.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 15. #
    Summary:  Custom Properties should be split from Variables into a separate spec.
    From:     Alan Stearns
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0385.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0386.html
    Closed:   Rejected
    Verified: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Apr/0224.html

    Issue 16. #
    Summary:  Custom Property names should be consistent with the names of other custom things.
    From:     Tab Atkins
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0261.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0467.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 17. #
    Summary:  The spec should drop the CSSVariableMap interface.
    From:     Cameron McCormack
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0223.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0571.html
    Closed:   Accepted

    Issue 18. #
    Summary:  Some people don't like the custom-property/var() syntax.
    From:     Mark Volkmann
    Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Apr/0026.html
    Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Apr/0034.html
    Closed:   Rejected