[webkit-dev] CSS Logical Properties and Values

[Simon Fraser]

> On Aug 21, 2018, at 5:56 PM, Oriol Brufau <obrufau at igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> I have written a patch for adding logical shorthand properties. However,
> I'm not much sure about how I can implement them behind a flag.
> 
> I tried hiding them behind a run-time flag. But unlike Blink, it seems I
> can't do this easily in CSSProperties.json.
> Instead, I wrapped the code added in CSSPropertyParser.cpp and
> CSSComputedStyleDeclaration.cpp inside conditionals with
> `RuntimeEnabledFeatures::sharedFeatures().cssLogicalEnabled()`.
> This disables the effects of the properties, but doesn't prevent them
> from being exposed via `prop in element.style`.
> 
> So I will try a compile flag instead. But there are some Web Platform
> Tests for the new properties, and I would like them to pass.
> Is there a way to tell the testbot to compile with this flag?
> 
> I would appreciate some guidance on the preferred way of doing this.

The way we do this this now is via flags on CSSParserContext. See "conicGradientsEnabled" for an example.

Simon