RE: AI: Precedence order re-wording

Hi there,

Why not talk about the "weight" or "importance" of selections/selectors?
Defaults for example would have lowest weight/importance.

Cheers,
Christian
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From: public-i18n-its-request@w3.org [mailto:public-i18n-its-request@w3.org]
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Sent: Freitag, 12. Januar 2007 15:23
To: Yves Savourel
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Subject: Re: AI: Precedence order re-wording


Yves Savourel wrote:
> By the way, one additional note:
> 
> The term "Precedence order" has been throwing me off several times. To
> me it normally means "the order in which the members of an expression
> are evaluated" (just like in math or in programming) and in the
> specification we use the term with a list that show the reverse order in
> which the rules should be evaluated (which is more like a "overriding
> order").
> 
> I've been afraid that at some point someone is going to implement the
> exact reverse order we intended. But maybe that's just me: I'm guessing
> that term used like that in other W3C specification(?)

no, and I have no preference for precedence order. overriding order is
fine as well.

Felix