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		ufo on May 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSS Variables in Firefox 29 Can you give an example of a situation where you would rather have cascading variables than lexical scope?

pornel on May 4, 2014 [–]

• JS libraries implementing polyfills for new CSS properties or their own CSS-like behaviors (e.g. `--masonry-display: jagged-grid`)

• themes (`--theme-color` that can be inherited and overridden just like `color` would)

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