- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:45:29 +0200 (MET)
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Jul 27, 7:25pm, Liam Quinn wrote: > At 03:42 PM 27/07/97 -0700, Todd Fahrner wrote: > >Right. So what do y'all say we harness some of the smarts and energy here > >to produce an exhaustively-specified "default" stylesheet for all HTML 4 > >elements? > > I'm not sure that all elements used should have all (applicable) CSS > properties set. An exhaustive style sheet would override all (non- > !important) user styles, which seems to go against the idea of Cascading > Style Sheets. If the stylesheet is textually included, yes. If it is @import'ed, not necessarily. If it is @import'ed and all the rules are of low specificity, it could be very useful. That means no #id (unlikely anyway) no class (ditto) and only a single tag name in each selector. And no !important, obviously. And relative font sizes, in ems, with BODY set to 1 em. > As an author, I don't want to have to decide every single style for the > user. There are some properties that the user is able to decide better > than me. Yes, that is true. > >Not a "designery" one, but one representing typical > >out-of-the-box rendering of all HTML elements in the dominant browsers. > >We'll know we're done when we can't tell whether it's being appled or not > >(assuming correct CSS implementations, of course, and no changes to user > >settings). > > Then what we're doing is trying to defeat the cascade. I think not. Rather, the aim seems to be to start the cascade from a known point. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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