user-stylesheet-015 invalid because it assumes other rules not present at user level

These tests:
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20101001/xhtml1/user-stylesheet-015.xht
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20101001/html4/user-stylesheet-015.htm
are invalid because they assume other rules are not present at the
user style sheet level.  (Technically a bunch of the other tests are
as well, but these are the only ones that actually fail as a
result.)

As recommended by CSS 2.1 (section 6.4), Gecko treats a number of
user preferences as user style sheet rules.  In particular, the
preference for active link colors is represented using the
equivalent of:
  :link:active, :visited:active { color: <preference> }

The test user-stylesheet-015 tests that a rule with selector
a:active in a user style sheet styles a link.  However, a:active has
lower specificity than the rule above, so it doesn't work.

If the rule's selector were a:link:active, a:visited:active it would
work for us.

-David

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Received on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 19:07:52 UTC