I don't know the internals of the JavaFX CSS parser but regarding the CSS
variable spec itself we could start by simply supporting numeric values as
well as colors. This would already allow developers to use variables
anywhere which would simplify and make managing stylesheets easier.
On Wed, Jul
I agree - having CSS variables will definitely help. Personally, I would
rather see a better way to create stylesheets programmatically, bypassing the
whole parsing routine, but I am sure a lot of people would be more comfortable
if things were similar to web css.
Enabling CSS variables seems
Yeah, I thought that it might be possible to define properties for sizes
similarly to colors, and some earlier attempts seemed to indicate that it might
work.
It does not, unless the sizes are fixed (e.g. -fx-size-1px: 1px; )
The real solution, as you mentioned, would be to add capability t