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Hi James,
> Thanks for sharing the MEP - it's a really interesting idea, and the MEP
> itself looks like a good start.
>
It is indeed a very interesting idea, and a challenging one! Thanks for
tackling this problem.
> I'd strongly encourage you to stick with standard CSS syntax/behaviour
> instead of extending it. For example, the selector of "Axes.ylabel" would
> be more consistent as "Axes .ylabel" (or perhaps "Axis.y .label").
>
I actually think we need to focus on something easy to parse and easy to
use, not necessarily stick to the CSS syntax and behaviour. Back in the day
where I was doing web development and design integration, everyone seemed
to hate CSS, so I am a bit curious and dubious about this choice.
I think we need to be careful about the choice of the grammar and the API:
we know there are tools that are "doing it right", and tools that aren't
(matplotlib falls in the second category). Before trying our own recipe I
suggest that we look elsewhere, on how other libraries are tackling this
problem, to see if we can reuse some of the good ideas and avoid errors. I
am thinking in particular about ggplot2 (which I have never used, but I
hear is very nice).
Thanks,
Nelle
>
> Do you have ideas on how one or more stylesheets would be "attached" to a
> particular figure, etc?
>
> Regards,
> Richard Hattersley
>
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Hi James,
Thanks for sharing the MEP - it's a really interesting idea, and the MEP
itself looks like a good start.
I'd strongly encourage you to stick with standard CSS syntax/behaviour
instead of extending it. For example, the selector of "Axes.ylabel" would
be more consistent as "Axes .ylabel" (or perhaps "Axis.y .label").
Do you have ideas on how one or more stylesheets would be "attached" to a
particular figure, etc?
Regards,
Richard Hattersley